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ORATION 

COMMEMORATIVE 

OF  THE 

Restoration  of  the  Union, 

WITH 

A TRIBUTE 

TO  THE 

Alumni  and  Under-Graduates 

OF  THE 

COLLEGE  OF  NEW  JERSEY, 

WHO  FELL  IN  THE  NATIONAL  STRUGGLE. 

DELIVERED 

TUESDAY,  JUNE  26th,  i 8 6 6, 

AT  THE  REQUEST  OF  THE 

TRUSTEES  OF  THE  COLLEGE, 

BY  THE 

REV.  JOSEPH  T.  DURYEA. 


PHILADELPHIA : 

McCalla  & Stavely,  Printers,  237  & 239  Dock  Street. 

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EXTRACT  FROM  THE  MINUTES  OF 

THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 


OF  THE  COLLEGE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


“Resolved,  That  the  Rev.  Joseph  T.  Duryea  of  New  York  City,  be 
invited  to  deliver  an  address  at  the  next  Commencement  commemorative 
of  the  restoration  of  the  Union,  with  a suitable  tribute  to  those  graduates 
and  undergraduates  of  this  College  who  were  connected  with  the  Army 
and  Navy  of  the  Country.” 

E.  R.  CRAVEN,  clerk. 

College  of  New  Jersey,  Feb.  7,  1866. 


EXTRACT  FROM  THE  MINUTES  OF 

THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES 

OF  THE  COLLEGE  OF  NEW  JERSEY. 


“Resolved,  That  the  Rev.  J.  T.  Duryea,  D.D.,  be  requested  to 
furnish  the  Board  with  a copy  of  the  Address  * On  the  Restoration  of  the 
Union/  delivered  by  him  yesterday  in  accordance  with  the  request  of  the 
Board,  for  publication. 

“Resolved,  That  Professor  Cameron  be  requested  to  furnish  any  notes 
he  may  have  made  of  faCts  concerning  the  services  of  graduates  and  under- 
graduates of  this  College,  in  the  Army  and  Navy  of  the  United  States 
during  the  late  rebellion,  to  be  published  in  connection  with  the  address 
of  Dr.  Duryea. ’’ 

Adopted  June  27th,  1866,  by  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  College  of 
New  Jersey. 

E.  R.  CRAVEN,  clerk. 

College  of  New  Jersey,  June  27,  18 66. 


ORATION. 


Mr.  President  and  Gentlemen  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees,  and  Brethren  of  the  Alumni: 


We  are  affembled  by  invitation  of  the  reverend 
Board  of  Truftees  to  commemorate  the  reftoration 
of  the  Union,  and  to  render  a suitable  tribute  to 
the  graduates  of  the  College  who  were  connected 
with  the  army  of  the  country.  Such  a service  does 
honor  to  the  judgment  and  the  heart  of  those  who 
conceived  it ; it  is  moft  fitting  among  the  solemni- 
ties of  an  institution  so  dependent  in  the  accomplish- 
ing of  its  high  objects  upon  the  protection  and  nur- 
ture of  government,  and  in  its  turn  so  vitally  con- 
nected with  the  stability  and  welfare  of  the  State 
as  a Chriltian  College : it  is  due  the  worthy  cause 
whose  triumph  it  contemplates:  it  is  most  just  to 
the  noble  men,  the  memory  of  whose  brave  deeds, 
and  sacrifices,  and  sufferings,  it  aids  us  to  cherifh 


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and  perpetuate  : it  is  most  grateful  to  every  instindl 
of  the  patriotism  and  piety  of  those  who  have  so 
cordially  responded  to  the  call  to  celebrate  it. 

More  especially  is  this  service  not  only  warranted, 
but  in  all  fitnefs  demanded  by  numerous  among  the 
most  treasured  alfociations  which  hallow  with 
changelefs  consecration  the  place  in  which  we  are 
gathered.  We  are  upon  the  soil  of  New  Jersey, 
which,  faithful  and  eminent  among  the  colonies, 
furnifhed  the  decifive  battle-ground  of  the  contest 
for  independence,  and  gave  to  the  cause  many  of 
its  noblest  advocates  and  defenders  in  the  Senate 
and  the  field.  We  are  in  the  ancient  borough  of 
Princeton  which  marked  the  turning-point  of  the 
gallant  struggle.  Down  this  height  the  receding 
tide  of  the  revolution  poured  sullenly  behind  the 
retreating  Commander-in-chief  to  its  loweft  ebb  at 
the  Delaware,  then  swept  proudly  up  again,  and 
onward  against  the  hastening  Britifh  Columns  to 
the  Raritan.  We  are  within  the  precincts  of  a 
College  which  sent  its  fathers  to  the  Congrefs  and 
its  sons  to  the  ranks,  which  put  its  hand  to  the  de- 
claration of  freedom  and  lent  its  counsels  to  the 
framers  of  the  Conftitution.  We  are  almost  be- 
neath the  shadow  of  walls  which  echoed  the  tread 
of  soldiery,  and  bore  the  scars  of  battle ; not  far 
from  a spot  made  sacred  forever  by  the  dust  of  the 
elder  patriots.  If  standing  on  this  hallowed  ground, 
among  the  memorials  of  the  nation’s  painful  birth 
and  struggling  infancy,  we  should  fail  to  signalize 


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the  burfting  of  its  bands,  and  the  grand  affertion  of 
its  proud  majority,  voices  would  come  from  the 
tombs  to  rebuke  our  sad  degeneracy.  If  to  these 
brothers  who  come  up  from  battle  in  our  defence 
to  surround  with  us  these  altars,  and  thrill  us  with 
a fraternal  grasp  of  the  good  right  hands  which 
have  so  surely  wrought  the  deliverance  of  our  be- 
loved land,  we  should  not  find  it  in  our  hearts  to 
speak  a cordial  greeting,  and  sound  the  honest, 
earnest,  grateful  plaudit,  “well  done,”  these  hills 
would  break  forth  before  us  into  singing,  and  all 
the  trees  of  these  hiftoric  fields  would  clap  their 
hands,  and  shame  us  for  our  guilty  silence.  If 
Alma  Mater  should  forget  to  extend  her  arms,  to 
offer  a warm  embrace,  and  pronounce  a loving 
benediction  to  these  her  sons,  who  have,  with  filial 
faithfulnefs,  come  here  to-day  to  lay  their  laurels 
at  her  feet,  and  reflect  the  luftre  of  their  well- 
earned  fame  upon  her  honored  head,  the  very 
stones  of  those  enduring  walls  would  cry  out 
against  her  for  a most  unnatural  mother.  If  in 
this  annual  coming  home,  we  should  not  tenderly 
repeat  the  names,  and  thankfully  recount  the  deeds 
of  those  who  come  no  more  because  they  sleep  in 
martyrs’  graves,  these  familiar  places  which  knew 
them  once  but  will  know  them  not  again,  would, 
with  resistlefs  eloquence,  chide  our  faithlefsnefs  and 
our  ingratitude,  and  through  the  halls  in  which 
they  learned  the  truth  and  imbibed  the  spirit  which 
made  them  strong  to  do  and  die,  the  summer 


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winds  would  mourn  their  absence  and  sigh  their 
requiem. 

But,  notwithftanding  the  impulses  of  a loyal  and 
greatful  heart  move  us  to  a cordial  participation  in 
this  service,  and  strong  confiderations  commend  it 
to  us  as  a duty,  yet,  we  will  confefs,  it  presents  to 
us  a task  most  difficult  to  execute.  We  are  not 
invited  now,  as  so  often  we  have  rejoiced  to  be,  to 
unite  in  acknowledged  sympathy  with  the  unani- 
mous American  people,  in  celebrating  the  rescue 
of  our  liberties  from  invafion  and  deftruction  by 
power,  affaulting  from  without,  directed  and  urged 
against  our  national  life  and  being  by  natural  and 
common  enemies.  That  would  prove  a task  as 
plain  and  easy  as  it  is  familiar.  But  we  are  called 
to  signalize  the  preservation  of  our  country  from 
dismemberment,  our  Government  from  difintegra- 
tion,  by  forces  upheaving  from  within,  evoked  and 
impelled  by  our  alienated  countrymen  and  fellow- 
citizens.  We  commemorate  the  reftoration  of  the 
Union,  remembering,  as  we  must  forever,  that  it  is 
the  issue  of  a civil  war.  We  cannot  hail  the  grand 
result  without  a note  of  triumph,  which  sounds  as 
well  the  defeat  of  brethren.  May  we  then  revive 
the  memory  of  domeftic  war,  and  celebrate  a vic- 
tory over  our  kindred  ? Will  such  recollection 
and  exultation  be  magnanimous  ? 

But  this  does  not  suggest  all  the  difficulty  we 
have  to  meet.  The  aggreflbrs  in  the  war  have 
been  defeated,  but  not  subjugated.  They  have 


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been  most  surely  subdued,  but  not  passed  under  the 
yoke.  Had  we  even  attempted  to  bend  their  necks 
in  servile  subjection,  we  would  have  surrendered 
in  the  effort,  and  in  the  hour  of  seeming  succefs, 
all  we  had  battled  for  and  hoped  to  attain.  We 
heldj  and  still  do  hold,  that  we  were  fighting 
solely  to  preserve  the  Government  supreme  in  its 
unity,  limited  only  by  the  wise  provifions  of  a 
generous  Constitution  in  its  sovereignty  over  an 
undivided  country,  administered  impartially  in  the 
interest  of  all  the  people.  The  genius  of  our 
inftitutions,  the  very  object  which  inspired  and 
suftained  the  contest,  made  the  subjugation  of  the 
conquered  impossible.  Before  the  world  we  affirm 
that  we  contended  for  a nationality  of  the  whole 
people,  and  confefs  that  we  are  defeated  if  the 
nation  fails  to  incorporate  into  itself  those  who 
have  laid  down  the  sword  at  our  feet.  With  con- 
science sincere  and  true  in  the  sight  of  God,  we  do 
aver  that  we  went  forth  to  war,  not  to  fight  our 
countrymen  out  of,  but  into,  their  rights  and 
privileges  in  the  Government  and  the  land.  How- 
ever incongruous  the  paradox  may  seem,  we  claim 
to  comprehend  the  vital  truth  it  expreffes,  and 
assert  our  firm  belief  that  the  issues  of  the  struggle 
will  solve  it  for  pofterity.  If  this  be  true  will  not 
commemoration  of  the  war  perpetuate  the  aliena- 
tions and  revive  the  animosities  by  which  it  was 
engendered,  and  tend  to  delay,  if  not  prevent,  the 
reconciliation  of  those  eftranged,  their  cordial  co- 
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operation  with  us  in  preserving  and  administering 
the  Government,  and  developing  the  power  and 
prosperity  of  the  nation?  Would  not  sound  wis- 
dom, therefore,  counsel  us  not  to  revive,  but  rather 
to  reprefs,  the  recollection  of  our  enmity;  not  to 
rear  new  memorials  of  our  strife,  but  to  make  haste 
to  bury  the  already  too  numerous  tokens  of  it?  Do 
not  even  tyrants,  when  they  have  crushed  back  a 
people  who  had  risen  against  oppression,  from  con- 
siderations of  most  selfish  policy,  promptly  employ 
some  fit  device  to  divert  the  popular  mind  from 
the  disquieting  remembrance  of  their  struggle  and 
defeat  ? May  we  then,  who  aimed  not  only  to 
preserve  the  nation,  but  to  bring  back  misguided 
brethren  to  allegiance;  to  invest  them  with  privi- 
leges they  were  ignorantly  about  to  cast  away;  to 
win  them  when  convinced  of  their  mistake  to  fra- 
ternal confidence  and  love — may  we  continue  to 
remind  them  of  their  apoftasy,  its  difastrous  con- 
sequences, its  ignominious  conclufions? 

Nay ! if  painful  recollection  and  humiliation 
were  the  ends  contemplated,  or  the  only  results  in 
fact  accompifhed  by  commemoration  of  the  suc- 
cessful issue  of  this  war,  every  truly  loyal  and  gen- 
erous soul  would  promptly  say,  let  it  be  never  so 
much  as  named  among  us,  let  it  be  utterly  forgot- 
ten. God,  in  his  singular  providence,  has  taught 
us  this.  At  the  moment  of  our  triumph,  he  turned 
our  joy  to  sorrow,  our  exultation  into  mourning. 


And  in  our  calendar  he  has  suffered  us  to  mark  no 
decisive  day  for  an  annual  jubilee. 

But  commemoration  of  great  events  has  im- 
portant ends  beyond  itself.  It  is  testimony  to 
truth  wrought  out  by  experience  in  the  past.  It 
is  instruction  to  the  present  age.  It  records  teach- 
ing for  the  generations  yet  to  follow.  And  this 
war  has  developed  vital  dodtrine  which  must  needs 
be  alferted  and  reafferted  until  it  is  rooted  deep  in 
the  practical  convictions  of  our  American  people, 
accepted  as  fundamental  in  their  establifhed  creed, 
infused  like  an  innate  idea  into  the  belief  of  their 
children.  Nor  is  this  all.  The  spirit  of  the  past 
must  be  transmitted  to  the  future  by  continuous 
recollection.  The  due  appreciation  of  the  inesti- 
mable worth  of  the  Union  must  be  secured  by  re- 
newed confideration  of  the  agony  and  sacrifice  it 
cost  to  save  it.  Devotion  to  the  Union  must  be 
kindled  afresh  from  the  memory  of  the  consecration 
of  those  who  first  cherished  it  and  died  to  redeem 
it.  In  scenes  like  this  we  must  inspire  the  spirit 
of  the  patriots  in  their  sons,  and  rouse  their  souls 
to  high  endeavors  to  imitate  their  glorious  deeds. 

But  another  consideration  adds  to  the  extreme 
delicacy  of  the  task  before  us.  This  is  the  yearly 
festival  of  the  College,  to  which  she  summons  all 
her  sons.  They  respond  to  the  call  from  every 
quarter  of  the  land.  They  are  here  to-day,  from 
the  South  as  well  as  from  the  North.  We  recog- 
nize among  them  those  who  have  come  from  dis- 


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loyal  States,  and  from  the  ranks  of  the  insurgent 
army.  We  accordingly  commemorate  the  restora- 
tion of  the  Union  in  presence  of  those  who  sin- 
cerely sought  to  effect  its  diffolution ; we  pay  our 
tribute  to  the  heroes  of  the  army  of  the  country, 
in  the  hearing  of  the  men  who  met  them  face  to 
face  in  deadly  battle.  Shall  we  then  celebrate  our 
achievement  before  their  very  eyes,  and  sound  the 
praises  of  their  vidtors  in  their  very  ears?  Is  this 
a generous  reception,  will  this  promote  our  recon- 
ciliation ? 

Let  us  suspend  our  judgment  for  a moment.  If 
we  should  waive  this  public  service,  we  still  would 
meet  them.  Their  presence  here  suggests  all  that 
this  occafion  more  purposely  recalls.  We  do  not 
then  compel  unwilling  and  rouse  inactive  memory. 
The  ordeal,  however  painful,  must  be  passed.  And 
which  is  the  manly  way  for  us,  for  them,  to  meet 
it  openly  and  fairly,  or  to  ignore  it  weakly  and 
with  hypocrisy?  We  do  believe  it  noblest  in  us 
all  to  look  honeftly  upon  the  past,  and  stand 
squarely  up  to  our  position.  We  cannot,  in  God’s 
name,  we  will  not  deny  that  we  were  earnest  and 
determined  in  our  faith  and  purpose  in  the  war. 
We  believed  in  the  Union,  we  thought  it  vital  to 
our  national  being,  we  esteemed  our  nationality 
effential  to  our  liberty  and  peace  upon  this  con- 
tinent. For  these  high  ends  we  poured  out  our 
treasures,  sent  forth  our  sons,  offered  our  most 
fervent  prayers.  For  them  we  fought,  and  would 


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have  fought  on  to  the  bitter  end,  in  suffering  and 
sorrow,  even  through  tedious  years,  until  they  could 
be  afferted  beyond  denial,  and  established  beyond 
reversal.  We  cannot  now  abate  one  jot  or  tittle 
from  these  principles  for  which  we  strove;  we 
cannot  come  down  one  yielding  step  from  the  lofty 
pofition  we  have  taken.  Should  we,  from  mis- 
taken notions  of  conciliation,  or  through  weak 
timidity,  renounce  our  faith,  abandon  our  high 
ground,  we  would  fling  into  the  face  of  our  Southern 
brethren  the  groffest  insult  we  could  devise.  Shall 
we  tell  them — without  a cause  we  waged  this 
bloody  war  against  you;  with  deliberate  wanton- 
ness, and  unneedful  cruelty,  we  closed  your  harbors, 
sealed  up  the  sources  of  your  wealth,  disrupted 
your  social  syftem,  burned  your  cities,  made  deso- 
late your  homes,  laid  waste  your  fair  fields,  dese- 
crated your  churches,  slew  your  people,  made 
childlefs  parents,  and  weeping  widows,  and  wailing 
orphans  almost  at  every  fire-side?  Would  we  dare 
to  look  them  in  the  eyes  and  tell  them  this? 
Would  that  conciliate  them,  revive  their  con- 
fidence in  us,  inspire  fraternal  feeling,  invite  to 
civil  fellowfhip  ? Were  we  unprincipled  and 
impolitic  enough  to  descend  so  low,  would  we 
dare  to  do  it  in  presence  of  these  others  who 
have  toiled,  and  suffered,  and  bled,  and  would 
have  died  in  the  contest,  and  have  buried  their 
comrades  on  a thousand  battle-fields  ? Could  we 
do  it,  when  we  recall  the  dying  agonies  of  thrice 


a hundred  thousand  patriot  heroes,  the  sorrows  of 
a hundred  thousand  loyal  homes?  No!  No!  The 
war  is  a fact  accomplifhed,  and  we  have  made  it 
so.  It  cannot  be  undone.  We  have  but  one 
apology  to  offer  for  it,  if  apology  we  needs  must 
make.  We  waged  it  with  dread  reluctance  from 
considerations  of  extreme  neceffity.  No  other 
motives  could  have  compelled  us  to  it,  sustained 
our  courage,  and  made  us  strong  and  willing  in 
agony  to  struggle,  in  brokennefs  of  heart  to  sacri- 
fice. No  other  ends  could  have  received  the  sanc- 
tion of  our  conscience,  the  prayers  and  benedic- 
tions of  our  religion.  For  no  others  could  we  have 
made  our  appeal  to  God,  and  put  our  trust  in  Him, 
and  hoped  for  the  help  of  His  just  providence. 
Standing  firm  in  our  true  pofition,  holding  fast  to 
these  affertions  with  bold  sincerity,  we  shall  be  un- 
derstood and  honored  by  those  who  have  most 
widely  differed  from  us,  and  most  determinedly 
opposed  us. 

Maintaining  this  strong  ground,  we  are  better 
able  to  assert  effectively  a truth  soon  to  be  de- 
veloped and  confirmed  by  sure  results,  even  now 
maturing,  until  it  comes  to  be  acknowledged  uni- 
versallv,  which  will  contribute  more  than  all  other 
facts  combined  to  secure  a thorough  reconciliation 
and  lasting  harmony.  We  mean  this  truth — that 
the  objects  sought  and  accomplifhed  in  the  war 
were  vital  to  the  highest  interests  of  all  the  people 
of  the  land.  However  strange  the  declaration  may 


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appear  to  those  who  cannot  yet  perceive  the  issue 
as  we  most  distinctly  understood  it,  nevertheless 
we  confidently  announce  it — we  believed  the  war 
to  be  in  all  its  ultimate  results  as  beneficent  to 
those  on  whom  we  waged  it  as  it  was  just  and  es- 
sential to  ourselves.  We  challenge  the  worlcl  to 
convict  us  of  aught  in  the  spirit  with  which  the 
nation,  as  a whole,  accepted  and  suftained  the  con- 
test at  variance  with  this  sentiment.  The  heart  of 
that  lamented  man  who  was  called  of  Providence 
to  exprefs  the  will,  and  execute  the  purpose,  and 
guide  the  energies  of  the  nation,  whose  solemn 
work  it  was  to  summon  armies,  instruct  their 
chiefs,  provide  their  enginery,  and  diredl  their  des- 
tructive forces,  was  all  the  while,  as  some  of  us  do 
know  by  tokens  most  convincing,  filled  to  the  flow- 
ing over  with  generous  charity  and  purest  kind- 
nefs.  And  that  great  heart  kept  time  with  the 
pulses  of  the  nation.  And  the  surest  way  to  true 
conciliation  and  lasting  friendfhip  is  to  prove  this 
certain  fact  to  those  who  by  wrong  conviction  and 
false  pofition  were  accounted  for  a while  our  ene- 
mies. To  this  good  end  we  must  continue  to 
demonstrate  the  necefiity,  and  justice,  and  the  ul- 
timate beneficence  of  the  war  for  the  Union. 

That  we  may  attempt  to  do  our  part  in  this 
good  work,  we  will  confider  and  illustrate  briefly 
some  grand  results  accomplifhed  by  the  war, which 
are  equally  connected  with  the  interests  of  all  por- 
tions of  the  country. 


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I.  The  war  has  tested  practically  and  decided 
the  fact  of  our  American  nationality. 

The  history  of  our  Government  defines  three 
periods  of  development,  in  which  three  forms  of 
polity  succeflively  obtained — the  colonial,  the  con- 
federated state,  and  the  national.  The  epoch  which 
marks  the  commencement  of  the  last  period  is 
the  year  1787.  In  a convention  of  delegates  from 
twelve  States  a Constitution  was  framed,  by  which 
sovereignty  was  vested  in  a Federal  Government. 
By  subsequent  ratification  in  popular  conventions 
it  became  the  fundamental  law  of  the  land.  In 
the  acts  adopting  it,  the  people  aflumed  the  char- 
acter and  functions  of  a nation.  To  this  effect  is 
the  entire  evidence  of  history.  Proof  indisputable 
is  found  in  the  faCts  connected  with  the  formation 
of  the  Union,  in  the  testimony  of  its  founders,  in 
the  very  vocabulary  of  the  Constitution^  in  the 
declarations  and  explanations  of  its  framers,  in  the 
decifions  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  country.  In 
one  of  these  decisions  the  doctrine  of  our  present 
polity  is  most  emphatically  declared  : 

“The  Government  of  the  Union  is  a Govern- 
ment of  the  people.  It  emanates  from  them.  Its 
powers  are  granted  by  them,  and  are  to  be  exer- 
cised directly  and  for  their  benefit.  The  Govern- 
ment of  the  Union  is  supreme  within  its  sphere  of 
action.” 

Upon  this  basis  of  a federal  sovereignty,  limited 
only  in  its  control  of  the  people,  all  and  singular, 


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by  the  provisions  of  the  Constitution,  the  Govern- 
ment was  administered  without  serious  obstruc- 
tions for  more  than  seventy  years  until  it  met  re- 
sistance in  the  late  rebellion.  It  is  true,  each  State 
reserved,  and  was  allowed  a form  of  government, 
and  has  always  exercised  a certain  jurisdiction 
within  its  boundaries  for  definite  ends  ; but  it  could 
not  assert  itself  an  independent  sovereignty  even  in 
its  sphere.  The  compact  of  the  people  demanded 
that  its  form  of  government  be  homogeneous  with 
the  Federal  Government,  its  jurisdiction  subor- 
dinate to  federal  supremacy.  Between  the  cen- 
tripetal force  of  federal  authority,  and  the  centri- 
fugal force  of  State  control,  the  system  finds  its 
balance,  secures  the  welfare  of  the  commonwealth, 
and  preserves  the  rights  and  liberties  of  individual 
citizens.  Our  polity  accordingly  is  national.  It 
confists  not  in  a confederacy  of  independent  states, 
temporarily  affociated  for  a few  common  ends,  but 
in  one,  indiffoluble,  organic  union  of  the  people. 
The  Congress  is  not  simply  a great  central  com- 
mission, with  powers  delegated  and  limited  by  the 
several  States ; it  is  a Government  supreme  in  its 
authority,  universal  in  its  control.  The  federal 
officers  are  not  State  agents,  but  rulers  of  the  land. 
They  govern  not  merely  the  little  District  of 
Columbia,  but  the  country.  They  command,  not 
only  an  insignificant  standing  army,  a few  ships, 
and  arsenals  and  navy-yards,  but  the  effective  forces 
of  the  States.  They  control  not  alone  some  volun- 

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tary  offerings  in  a common  treasury,  but  the  entire 
resources  of  the  land.  What  are  these  but  the 
distinctive  elements  and  functions  of  a nationality? 

The  supremacy  of  the  National  Government 
was  the  matter  at  issue  in  the  war.  It  is  con- 
fidently asserted  that  the  diffolution  of  the  Union, 
and  the  re-establishment  of  State  Sovereignty 
was  the  direct  and  long-cherished  object  of  the 
authors  of  the  war.  It  is  probable,  however,  that 
decision  on  this  point  must  wait  the  evidence  of 
facts  not  yet  sufficiently  developed.  So  far  as  his- 
tory is  now  recorded  it  explains  the  issue  on  this 
wise  : The  political  leaders  of  a section  of  the 
country  were  dilfatisfied  with  the  sentiments  and 
manifest  purpose  of  the  great  body  of  the  people 
in  reference  to  slavery.  The  majority  desired  its 
abolition,  confidering  it  a moral,  social  and  political 
evil.  Of  the  majority,  comparatively  few  desired 
to  invoke  the  power  of  the  Federal  Government 
for  its  immediate  extinction.  The  remainder, 
holding  the  General  Government  bound  by  the 
provisions  of  its  Constitution  to  refrain  from  inter- 
ference with  the  system  in  the  sphere  in  which  it 
had  obtained  existence,  determined  only  to  ex- 
clude it  from  the  common  domain ; or  to  take  such 
measures  as  would  make  its  extension  practically 
impoffible. 

The  people  of  the  section  attempted  to  justify 
the  inftitution  on  the  grounds  of  divine  sanction,  so- 
cial necessity,  and  wise  political  economy.  They 


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determined  to  defend,  perpetuate  and  extend  it. 
They  were  led  to  believe  that  it  was  the  purpose 
of  a growing  and  resistless  majority  of  the  people 
to  secure  its  unconditional,  immediate,  entire  ex- 
termination. Those  who  were  well  informed  and 
candid,  confessed  that  it  was  the  purpose  of  the 
majority  simply  to  limit  slavery  to  the  States  in 
which  it  was  existing.  All,  however,  saw  that  the 
profit  and  security  of  the  institution  demanded  its 
extension  ; that  if  it  were  confined,  it  would  in- 
evitably react  upon  itself  to  its  own  destruction 
and  the  utter  ruin  of  the  peculiar  interests  of  those 
who  supported  and  defended  it.  They  accordingly 
determined  to  diflolve  their  connection  with  the 
Government,  and  to  eftablish  a confederacy  among 
themfelves,  holding  the  States  in  which  they  lived, 
and  such  portions  of  the  common  territory  as  they 
might  be  able  to  retain,  as  the  needful  sphere  for 
the  profitable  development  of  slavery. 

To  prepare  the  people  for  this  action  a theory 
had  been  long  provided,  it  had  been  confidently 
proclaimed  and  affiduously  expounded  and  defended 
by  far-seeing  men  for  more  than  thirty  years,  until 
it  came  to  be  a part  of  their  most  cherifhed  creed. 
Taught  from  childhood  to  believe  it,  the  mafles 
held  it  most  tenaciously.  It  is  the  grand  apology 
for  their  rebellion.  It  furnishes  considerations 
which  have  already  turned  the  loyal  heart  from 
wrathful  vindictiveness  to  sad  regret,  from  burn- 
ing vengeance  to  long-suffering  charity ; and  now 


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disposes  it  to  honorable  conciliation  and  forgive- 
ness. The  doctrines  of  this  theory  were  briefly 
these  : The  Union  is  a compact  of  convenience. 
It  is  binding  only  during  the  pleasure  of  the  parties. 
The  States  are  sovereign.  The  right  of  seceflion 
is  involved  in  their  sovereignty;  they  may  exercise 
the  right  at  their  discretion. 

A lawful  and  regular  election,  in  which  the 
citizens  of  all  the  States  participated,  resulted  in 
the  choice  of  an  administration  committed  to  a 
policy  adverse  to  the  extension  of  slavery.  This 
was  deemed  sufficient  cause  for  the  practical  asser- 
tion of  the  theory  of  State  independence,  and  the 
right  of  separation  from  the  Union.  By  what  was 
claimed  to  be  legitimate  action,  though  it  was 
neither  ordered  nor  confirmed  by  popular  expres- 
sion, seven  States  pafled  ordinances  of  seceflion, 
united  in  the  establishment  of  a hostile  confederacy, 
and  proclaimed  the  diflolution  of  the  Union  an  ac- 
complifhed  .fact.  To  vindicate  the  right  and 
defend  the  position  thus  aflumed,  a warlike  atti- 
tude was  taken,  and  provision  made  to  resist  by 
force  of  arms  any  exercise  of  federal  authority. 
The  officers  of  the  confederacy  seized  all  the  prop- 
erty of  the  Government  within  the  limits  of  the 
seceded  States,  except  three  forts  on  the  coast  of 
Florida,  and  one  in  Charleston  harbor,  and  pre- 
pared to  seize  and  capture  these.  All  this  was 
prior  to  any  declaration  of  the  policy  and  purpose 
of  the  incoming  administration,  before  it  had  so 


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much  as  entered  on  its  office,  and  accordingly 
before  it  could,  if  so  disposed,  direct  aggreffive 
action  against  the  rights  of  any  State,  or  any  in- 
terests of  slavery.  The  moment  it  came  into  power 
the  administration,  by  its  first  utterance,  declared 
that  it  had  no  lawful  right,  nor  purpose,  nor  even 
inclination,  directly  or  indirectly,  to  interfere  with 
the  institution  of  slavery  in  the  States  where  it  was 
already  in  existence  : that  it  was  bound  by  solemn 
oath,  and  in  consistency  with  the  platform  on 
which  it  was  elected,  to  maintain  inviolate  the 
rights  of  the  States,  and  especially  the  right  of  each 
State  to  order  and  control  its  own  domestic  insti- 
tutions, according  to  its  own  judgment  exclusively, 
because  that  right  was  held  to  be  eflential  to  the 
balance  of  power  on  which  the  perfection  and  en- 
durance of  our  political  fabric  depend.  By  deliv- 
erances like  these  the  Government  labored  to 
convince  the  people  of  the  South  that  no  real 
grievance  could  ensue  to  justify  resistance  to  its 
legitimate  authority. 

But  on  the  other  hand,  true  to  the  Constitution, 
and  the  traditions  of  our  political  history,  the 
Government  firmly  announced  the  doctrine  by 
which  it  should  be  guided.  The  union  of  these 
States  is  perpetual.  No  State  upon  its  own  mere 
motion  can  lawfully  get  out  of  the  Union.  Re- 
solves and  ordinances  to  that  effect  are  legally  void. 
Acts  of  violence  within  any  State  or  States  against 
the  authority  of  the  United  States  are  insurrec- 


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tionary,  or  revolutionary,  according  to  circum- 
stances. 

The  purpose  was  proclaimed,  not  with  threaten- 
ing, but  calm  and  sure  determination,  that  the  ad- 
ministration would  take  care  that  the  laws  of  the 
Union  should  be  faithfully  executed  in  all  the 
States.  These  solemn  words  of  the  President  ex- 
plained the  attitude  of  government  in  the  only 
position  it  poffibly  could  take  consilient  with  the 
oath  of  duty  to  the  Union.  “In  your  hands,  my 
dissatisfied  fellow-countrymen,  and  not  in  mine, 
are  the  momentous  issues  of  civil  war.  The  Gov- 
ernment will  not  assail  you.  You  can  have  no 
conflict  without  being  yourselves  the  aggrelfors. 
You  have  no  oath  registered  in  heaven  to  destroy 
the  Government,  while  I shall  have  the  most 
solemn  one  to  preserve,  protect,  and  defend  it.” 
The  answer  was  sent  from  the  mouth  of  cannon, 
and  echoed  from  the  walls  of  Sumpter.  The 
Southern  leaders  had  referred  the  question  in  dis- 
pute to  the  stern  arbitrament  of  war.  No  choice 
was  left  the  Government;  the  trial  was  accepted. 
The  people  rose  with  one  mighty  impulse,  and 
decreed,  they  have  asked  for  war,  let  them  have 
war,  and  we  will  wage  it. 

The  war  is  ended  in  national  victory.  The  arm 
of  refistance  to  federal  authority  is  broken.  The 
federal  supremacy  is  conterminous  with  the 
boundaries  of  the  country.  The  States  are  waiting 
at  the  door  of  Congress  for  re-admiffion  to  the 


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federal  councils.  That  door  will  not  be  opened 
until  the  Union  is  proclaimed  perpetual,  and  seces- 
sion treason — the  General  Government  supreme — 
the  State  subordinate — the  Constitution  fundamen- 
tal— the  laws  of  States  derived.  Whether  or  not 
past  history  declares  the  American  people  a sove- 
reign nation,  the  present  fact  will  make  them  such 
for  all  the  future.  For  the  Union  is  to-day  estab- 
lifhed,  and  we  mean,  if  neceffity  shall  once  more 
require  it  of  us,  to  turn  to  desperate  deeds  the 
words  of  this  our  constant  prayer — “ Perpetual  let 
it  be !”  Whether  or  not,  as  was  aflerted  in  Con- 
gress a few  days  since,  seceffion  was  born  with  the 
federal  Constitution,  it  surely  died  with  the  con- 
federate capitulation,  and  we  the  people  mean  to 
seal  its  sepulchre,  and  stand  a sleepless  guard,  and 
set  a conftant  watch  against  its  resurrection.  This 
we  accept  and  vindicate  as  the  grand  verdict  of  the 
affize  of  war. 

And  if  there  be,  as  we  believe,  a Providence,  and 
its  ruling  is  pre-eminent  in  the  results  of  war,  then 
God  has  put  his  seal  upon  the  compact  of  the 
Union  ; it  is  his  almighty  power  which  “hath  made 
and  preserved  us  a nation,”  and  henceforth  the 
American  who  reads  the  words  of  holy  Scripture  : 
“The  powers  that  be  are  ordained  of  God,”  will 
understand  them  in  the  light  of  his  decisive  teach- 
ing in  these  years  of  war,  and  know,  without  mis- 
take, where  conscience  must  confess  allegiance  due, 
and  bow  down  in  obedience  divinely  sanctioned  to 
the  national  supremacy. 


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The  preservation  of  their  nationality  was  neces- 
sary to  the  security,  peace,  and  prosperity  of  the 
American  people.  The  neceffity  is  founded  in  the 
fact  of  the  physical  unity  of  the  country.  The 
unity  of  a territory  consists  in  its  isolation  by  strong 
natural  barriers  from  other  portions  of  the  earth  ; 
in  the  close  relation  of  its  parts  in  mutual  depend- 
ence, and  in  combination  in  a system  of  contribu- 
tions and  compensations ; and  in  the  absence  of 
serious  obstacles  to  free  intercommunication.  A 
land  of  such  phyfical  onenefs  is  an  organism,  con- 
structed for  the  accomplishment  of  functions  which 
determine  the  relations,  and  subserve  the  welfare 
of  the  people  inhabiting  it.  He  who  is  founder, 
both  of  continents  and  nations,  has  secured  his  pur- 
poses in  the  course  of  history  by  the  conformation 
of  the  globe. 

(i.)  The  isolation  of  a country  makes  it  defensi- 
ble against  invasion  from  abroad.  While  human 
nature  remains  as  human  nature  is,  strong  natural 
barriers  against  aggression  will  prove  to  be  the  in- 
dispensable conditions  of  the  security  of  peoples. 
Mountains  and  oceans  must  be  the  guards  that 
keep  the  peace.  To  supply  their  place,  if  these  do 
not  exist,  by  artificial  means,  the  whole  energy  of 
nations  must  be  developed  and  directed,  with  vast 
expense  of  material  and  men,  with  ruinous  im- 
poverishment of  the  vital  sources  of  national  pros- 
perity. Too  often  in  the  mighty  task  the  nation 
is  exhausted,  and  falls  an  easy  prey  before  the 


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covetous  invader.  In  view  of  the  present  aspect 
of  all  Europe,  and  the  events  transpiring  this  very 
hour,  these  facts  need  not  to  be  supported  by  labored 
argument,  nor  to  be  illustrated  by  far-fetched  his- 
torical examples. 

(2.)  The  inter-dependence  of  the  various  por- 
tions of  a country  will  make  necessary  the  demand 
that  it  be  the  common  posseffion  of  all  the  people, 
and  that  the  common  use  of  it  be  secured  and 
regulated  by  a general  government.  Especially  if 
the  territory  be  widely  extended,  with  parts  ex- 
ceedingly diverse  in  their  productions,  will  the 
posseffion  of  a common  interest  in  it  be  conducive 
to  the  highest  material,  intellectual,  and  social  de- 
velopment of  the  people.  And  as  they  come  to 
underftand  this  fact,  they  will  more  and  more 
tenaciously  hold  to  their  right  and  title  in  it.  “All 
that  a man  hath  will  he  give  for  his  life.,>  And 
if  the  neceffities  of  life  are  distributed  in  various 
portions  of  the  land,  the  people  will  require  free 
access  to  them,  a commerce  will  be  demanded,  and 
common  law  to  regulate  it. 

But  men  will  not  be  satisfied  with  bare  exist- 
ence. If  wealth  may  be  derived,  and  with  it, 
means  of  bodily  ease  and  comfort,  the  appliances 
of  mental  culture  and  enjoyment,  of  social  eleva- 
tion and  refinement,  in  a word,  all  that  we  com- 
prehensively name  civilization,  the  people  will  de- 
mand the  opening  of  its  sources,  the  freedom  of 
its  channels,  to  all  who  choose  to  seek  it.  As 
4 


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civilization  advances,  creating  demands  for  new 
and  various  material  found  only  in  foreign  lands, 
enterprise  will  call  for  international  commerce, 
and  claim  free  outlets  for  the  produce  of  all  sec- 
tions, by  road,  and  lake,  and  river,  to  the  sea;  and 
an  inlet  on  just  and  equal  terms  for  commodities 
and  fabrics  from  distant  industrial  sources. 

The  inference  from  all  these  facts  is  plain. 
Where  a territory  is  one,  the  people  must  be  one. 
The  common  defence,  the  common  interest  must 
be  secured  by  union  in  a common  nationality.  If 
under  the  conditions  presented  by  the  oneness  of  a 
country,  the  people  should  consent  to  separate,  and 
endeavor  to  abide  in  several  petty  nationalities, 
they  would  greatly  hazard  in  the  experiment  their 
safety  and  their  peace,  and  would  most  surely  put 
narrow  limits  to  their  prosperity.  That  which,  in 
such  circumstances,  makes  national  unity  conducive 
to  these  ends,  would  equally  make  division  des- 
truftive  of  them.  By  forming  several  states  behind 
a single  natural  frontier,  the  barriers  against  aggres- 
sion from  abroad  would  be  virtually  thrown  down. 
To  gain  access  to  the  whole  country  a foreign  foe 
would  need  to  conquer  only  a singl-e  feeble  sec- 
tion. This  would  invite  invasion.  Besides,  at  any 
moment,  one  section  through  temporary,  or  set- 
tled alienation,  might  be  led  to  form  alliance  with 
the  invader,  to  open  voluntarily  the  gates  of 
natural  defence,  to  pass  the  intruder  across  its 
limits,  and  bring  him  to  the  indefensible  boundary 


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of  its  neighboring  se&ion  for  purposes  of  plunder 
or  of  conquest. 

The  common  interests  of  the  people  of  a coun- 
try, in  its  several  portions,  would  necessarily  be 
sacrificed  by  its  partition  under  several  independ- 
ent States.  But  nevertheless  the  circumstances 
would  still  remain,  which  make  a common  posses- 
sion, and  use  of  all  the  country  needful  to  all  the 
people.  And  so  inevitably  envy  and  jealousy  would 
provoke  diflensions  and  strifes. 

The  absence  of  all  barriers,  and  the  means  of 
easy  communication  between  the  sections,  would 
invite  and  lead  to  constant  trespafiings,  for  which 
explanation  a.nd  reparation  would  be  demanded, 
and  too  often  the  grievances  would  meet  with  no 
redress,  but  remain  the  provoking  cause  of  civil 
war.  It  needs  no  argument  to  prove  that  a peo- 
ple in  such  circumstances  of  confusion  and  strife 
could  not  hope  to  find  material  or  means  for  great 
prosperity. 

Th  ese  facts  find  confirmation  in  many  histories; 
in  none  perhaps  more  full  than  in  the  history  of 
Greece.  In  a country  of  marked  unity  several  re- 
publics struggled  for  independent  existence  and 
development.  The  result  was  inceflant  jealousy 
and  rivalry,  almost  interminable  collision  and  war. 
At  one  period  Athens  was  supreme,  at  another, 
Sparta;  at  another,  Thebes;  until  at  last,  weak  in 
their  division,  enfeebled  yet  more  by  long  con- 
tinued conflict,  they  were  easily  appropriated  by 


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the  Macedonian  power.  This  empire,  in  its  turn, 
divided  and  weakened  by  the  Achaean  league, 
steadily  declined,  and  at  last  surrendered  to  the 
Roman  arms.  All  that  remained  to  keep  alive 
the  memory  of  claffic  Greece  was  the  insignificant 
province  of  Achaia. 

The  knowledge  of  these  principles  of  national 
life  and  well-being  led  the  fathers  of  our  nation  to 
abandon  the  loose  confederacy  in  which  the  States 
were  first  united,  and  to  establish  what  they  sug- 
gestively described  as  a “more  perfect  union.” 
Washington  expressed  their  practical  convictions, 
when  in  his  farewell  address,  he  said  : “ The  unity 
of  government  which  constitutes  you  one  people 
is  now  dear  to  you.  It  is  justly  so,  for  it  is  a main 
pillar  in  the  edifice  of  your  real  independence, 
the  support  of  your  tranquillity  at  home,  of  your 
peace  abroad,  of  your  safety,  of  your  prosperity,  of 
that  very  liberty  which  you  so  highly  prize.”  It 
was  the  irresistible  force  of  these  considerations 
that  impelled  the  loyal  people  to  reject  the  pro- 
posal of  a peaceful  separation  of  the  States,  which 
was  so  often  suggested  by  so-called  radical  men, 
both  of  the  North  and  South,  and  seemed  to  offer 
so  simple  and  easy  a solution  of  the  difficulty 
between  the  sections.  It  was  plausibly  maintained 
that  by  amicable  division  of  the  country  the 
Northern  people  could  retain  their  nationality 
with  universal  freedom,  while  the  Southern  peo- 
ple could  form  their  chosen  confederacy  with 


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negro  slavery.  Such  a division  was  never  sought 
in  the  only  legitimate  way,  by  appeal  for  the  con- 
sent of  the  people.  It  is  most  certain  that  if  it 
had  been  sought,  it  could  not  have  been  obtained. 
The  intelligent  people  of  the  land  most  firmly  be- 
lieved that  two  nations  could  never  exist  together 
on  this  soil  in  security,  prosperity  and  peace.  Nor 
could  their  foresight  discover  when  and  where 
dismemberment  would  cease  if  once,  by  their  per- 
mission, it  should  begin.  They  accordingly  pro- 
tested against  secession,  and  determined  to  resist  by 
force,  if  it  were  needful,  the  division  of  the  coun- 
try. They  saw  in  the  liberty  and  wealth  of  this 
fair  continent  motives  which  would  make  a strong 
appeal  to  the  spirit  of  despotism  and  cupidity  in 
the  breasts  of  foreign  tyrants,  and  knew  that  a 
divided  people  would  make  the  land  an  easy  prey 
to  the  too  eager  invader.  They  therefore  deter- 
mined to  stand  a massive  unit,  and  present  the 
menace  of  a nation’s  power  to  every  envious  eye. 
They  also  perceived  the  jealousy  and  hatred  which 
had’  been  gathering  force  for  years,  and  working 
their  result  in  sectional  diffension,  and  knew  full 
well  that  States  which  could  not  rest  in  harmony 
in  a common  government,  would,  when  separate, 
find  war  inevitable. 

They  accordingly  determined  to  strengthen  the 
federal  bond,  and  repress  the  strifes  of  sections  with 
the  strong  arm  of  national  authority.  They  saw 
the  common  pofieflion  of  the  country  would 


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make  the  nation  great,  and  strong,  and  prosperous; 
they  accordingly  determined  it  should  be  entire, 
the  property  of  all  the  people.  It  was  this  intelli- 
gent determination  which  pushed  on  the  war  to 
victory.  The  national  success  has  saved  the  na- 
tional domain. 

Notwithstanding  that,  before  the  war,  the  coun- 
try was  acknowledged  to  be,  in  a manner,  the 
property  of  all  the  people,  yet  there  were  hin- 
drances to  the  common  employment  of  its  re- 
sources as  effectually  exclusive  as  any  which  might 
have  been  interposed  by  its  division  into  rival 
sovereignties.  The  removal  of  these  the  war  has 
incidentally  accomplifhed  in  the  destruction  of 
slavery.  To  say  nothing  of  the  millions  of  negro 
laborers  who  had  no  permanent  interest  in  the 
soil  or  its  productions,  the  white  laborer  was  prac- 
tically debarred  from  vast  portions  of  the  country. 
He  could  not  enter  them  and  put  his  hand  to 
honest  toil,  without  most  hopeless  competition 
with  unpaid  labor,  most  certain  degradation  of 
himself  and  his,  to  the  low  level  of  a chattel  slave. 
To  this  the  intelligent  artisan  could  not  abase  him- 
self. With  him,  the  manufacturing  capitalist  was 
necessarily  excluded. 

To-day,  thank  God,  there  is  no  servile  caste. 
The  hand  of  toil  may  give  itself  to  useful  work, 
without  the  stain  of  servitude ; the  sun-browned 
face  may  lift  itself  without  the  mark  of  shame,  in 
every  portion  of  the  land.  Nay!  God  has  made 


it  so  that  they  are  thrice  welcome  who  were  once 
cast  out  as  mean,  and  held  in  strong  contempt  as 
fellows  with  the  laboring  brute.  Soon  the  anvil 
will  stand  beside  the  plough,  the  loom  beside  the 
cotton-gin,  the  refinery  beside  the  sugar-press,  and 
the  interests  of  husbandman  and  artisan  will  meet 
and  blend  in  one. 

The  war  has  incidentally  procured  the  assimila- 
tion of  the  civil  and  domestic  institutions  of  the 
country. 

It  is  necessary  to  the  stability  of  government 
that  the  domestic  institutions  of  the  people  be 
homogeneous  with  it.  If  the  government  be 
monarchical  the  ariftocratic  principle  must  shape 
all  the  relations  of  its  subjects.  If  a government 
be  popular,  the  democratic  principle  must  pervade 
the  forms  of  social  life.  For  the  institutions  of  the 
country  will  react  upon  the  government.  If  they 
are  similar  the  reaction  will  be  conservative,  if 
they  are  difiimilar  it  must  prove  destructive.  In 
a monarchy,  the  aristocracy  find  it  to  their  interest 
to  sustain  the  Government,  the  commonality  learn 
obedience  to  it  by  the  discipline  of  feudal  subjec- 
tion. On  the  contrary,  the  social  equality  of  the 
people  would  soon  create  demands  for  political 
equality.  If  the  Government  will  retain  its  char- 
acter the  aristocracy  must  be  sustained,  and  hold 
strength  enough  to  keep  the  people  down.  If 
once  the  people  rise  in  revolution  against  the  social 
tyranny,  they  will  not  stay  their  hand  until  it  grasps 


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the  sceptre,  flings  off  the  crown,  and  overturns  the 
throne. 

If,  in  a popular  government,  a social  aristocracy 
prevails,  they  will  desire  to  introduce  the  aristo- 
cratic element,  and  seek  exclusive  privileges  in  the 
civil  government.  If  they  maintain  their  purpose 
and  prove  to  be  the  stronger  portion  of  the  people, 
they  will  modify  the  government,  or  overthrow  it 
to  secure  another  more  congenial.  If  the  demo- 
cratic portion  becomes  the  stronger,  and  the  gov- 
ernment refuses  to  sweep  away  the  exclusive 
privileges  of  the  oppreffive  class,  they  will  rise 
against  the  government,  and  strive  to  supersede  it 
with  such  an  one  as  they  shall  choose  and  fashion 
to  preserve  their  liberties.  No  man  who  knows 
but  superficially  the  history  of  ancient  Rome  will 
hope  to  controvert  these  settled  facts.  Our  fathers 
believed  them  firmly  and  knew  their  deep  signifi- 
cance, and  had  them  well  in  view,  when  they 
wrote  in  the  Constitution:  “The  Congress  shall 
guarantee  to  every  State  in  this  Union  a republican 
form  of  government.” 

The  principles  of  our  Government  is  democratic, 
its  method  is  republican.  The  Government  exists 
by  the  will  of  the  people  ; it  is  administered  in  their 
interest,  and  is  responsible  to  them. 

The  principle  of  slavery  is  aristocratic,  its  method 
is  despotic.  It  exists  by  the  will  of  a class,  it  is 
employed  for  their  sole  benefit,  and  is  responfible 
to  municipal  authority,  wholly  subservient  to  their 


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will.  It  accordingly  creates  an  aristocracy.  One 
could  not  be  more  effectually  established  by  legal 
enactments  conferring  the  rank  and  titles  of  no- 
bility. The  master  becomes  a petty  lord,  all  rights 
and  privileges  are  his  : the  slave  becomes  a vassal, 
he  has  no  rights,  he  lives  only  to  be  used  by  the 
superior  caste,  to  which  he  is  supposed  to  be  by 
nature  subject,  and  his  labor  to  be  due.  Too  cer- 
tainly the  distinction  between  the  matter  and  the 
slave  is  succeeded  by  a broader  distinction  between 
proprietorship  and  labor.  The  free  laborer,  as  well 
as  the  slave,  is  included  in  the  servile  caste,  to  be 
held  in  distant  contempt  by  the  gentry  who  do 
not  soil  their  hands  with  work. 

In  the  light  of  these  principles  we  may  clearly 
see  that  slavery  was  incompatible  with  the  genius 
of  our  free  institutions.  It  introduced  an  ariftocratic 
element  into  a democratic  economy,  and,  therefore, 
of  neceffity  caused  confusion  and  antagonism.  The 
reaction  upon  the  Government  was  well  nigh  des- 
tructive. The  slaveholding  caste  cherifhed  a sense 
of  superiority,  not  only  over  the  slaves  and  white 
laborers  of  the  South,  but  also  over  the  people  of 
the  North,  so  largely  devoted  to  labor^  on  the  soil 
and  in  the  factory.  It  was  no  more  than  natural 
to  this  spirit  that  they  should  become  impatient  of 
a Government  in  which  the  common  people 
shared  with  them  authority  and  rights.  They 
came  at  last  to  assert  political  superiority.  They 
demanded  and  expected  peculiar  privileges  in  the 

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Government,  and  endeavored  to  employ  its  adminis- 
tration for  the  furtherance  of  the  peculiar  interests 
of  their  class  and  section.  And  when  at  last  the 
people  rose  in  refistance  to  these  aflumptions,  and 
signified  their  resolution  to  keep  firm  control  of  the 
Government,  and  declared  that  its  agencies  should 
not  be  subsidized  by  any  class,  but  should  be  em- 
ployed in  the  equal  interest  of  all  classes,  they  were 
ready  to  renounce  allegiance  to  the  Government, 
and  attempt  its  overthrow. 

Meanwhile  the  race  of  slaves  was  multiplying 
with  fearful  rapidity.  They  had  been  already 
counted  in  millions,  and  no  foresight  could  tell 
their  ultimate  number.  They  were  accumulating 
tremendous  power.  The  war  has  shown  us  that  it 
was  capable  of  organization  and  direction,  and 
could  have  been  brought  to  bear  with  prodigious 
energy  by  executive  skill  and  rapid  discipline.  No 
man  with  intelligent  assurance  could  deny  that  the 
day  might  come  when  a chieftain  would  appear 
to  marshal  the  mighty  host,  and  a sudden  inspira- 
tion would  inflame  their  passions,  unite  and  ani- 
mate their  purpose,  exalt  their  courage,  and  send 
them  forth  to  achieve  their  liberty.  They  may, 
like  captive  Israel  in  the  house  of  bondage,  have 
waited  long  for  the  coming  leader,  and  the  pro- 
pitious signs  of  their  deliverance,  but  they  surely 
would  have  come  to  them  at  last.  Nor  would  it 
have  been  strange,  if  in  the  hour  of  their  succefs, 
the  Government  which  had  so  long  in  silence 


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witnefied  and  seemed  to  countenance  their  sore 
opprefiion,  had  felt  the  force  of  their  just  ven- 
geance. 

But  these  perils  now  are  past.  The  war  has 
ended  slavery,  and  leveled  aristocracy.  And  God, 
in  that  wise  providence  which  works  with  marvel- 
lous fitness,  as  well  as  sure  effect,  has  made  the 
hand  of  labor  strong  to  do  the  deed,  and  crowned 
the  laborer’s  brow  with  the  chiefest  honors  of  the 
grand  achievement. 

Finally: — The  war  has  helped  to  complete  in 
the  American  mind  true  ideas  of  civil  govern- 
ment. 

We  underftand  and  appreciate  as  we  never  did 
before  the  sandlity  of  government.  It  is  ordained 
of  God.  Its  eflence  is  divine,  its  form  is  human  ; 
its  authority  is  from  heaven,  its  adminiftration  is  of 
men.  Providence  is  directly  connected  with  its 
establifhment,  and  orders  all  its  changes.  When 
once  it  is  establifhed  it  demands  submiflion  in  the 
name  of  its  supreme  author  and  founder.  Obe- 
dience to  its  laws  is  conformity  to  the  will  of  God, 
disobedience  is  rebellion.  Until  it  comes  to  be 
administered  so  as  to  be  no  longer  promotive,  but 
subverfive,  of  its  appointed  ends,  its  subjects  have 
no  right  of  revolution.  Even  when  it  becomes 
entirely  perverted,  revolution  is  still  a crime,  unless 
all  other  methods  of  redress  have  been  strenuously 
and  patiently  tried  without  avail ; and  then,  until 
strong  promise  of  succefs  can  be  discerned,  and 


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firm  affurance  gained  that  the  Government,  if  over- 
thrown, can  be  replaced  by  one  more  faithful  to 
its  objects.  These  dodtrines  so  signally  confirmed 
by  the  providence  of  God  in  the  iffues  of  the  war, 
are  now  a law  to  the  conscience  of  the  people. 

We  have  also  advanced  in  our  conception  of  the 
true  objects  of  civil  government. 

In  the  rejection  of  absolutism  and  civil  aris- 
tocracy, and  the  formation  of  a democratic  repub- 
lican polity,  we  fondly  hoped  that  we  had  secured 
a system  which  would  completely  effect  the  ends 
of  government,  promoting  in  harmony  the  liberty 
of  the  individual  citizen,  and  the  order  and  well- 
being of  society.  We  still  believe  the  principles 
of  our  polity  to  be  conservative  of  these  ends.  But 
we  have  learned  that  we  must  give  them  broader 
application,  and  increased  efficiency.  Unless  we 
are  blind  to  the  teaching  of  the  war,  we  will  now 
accept  as  the  high  office  of  civil  government,  the 
protection  of  man  as  man,  in  the  enjoyment  of 
his  natural  right  to  the  full  development  of  his 
entire  manhood,  in  all  the  effentials  of  his  total 
welfare  in  the  present  and  the  future  life,  in  all  his 
relations  to  his  fellow-men  and  to  God.  The  vital 
importance  and  the  grandeur  of  this  object  will  be 
eflimated  in  view  of  the  value  of  man  to  himself, 
to  his  neighbor  and  to  God.  The  value  of  man  to 
himself  is  to  be  estimated  by  confederation  of  the 
possibilities  of  his  nature  as  a material,  intellectual, 
and  spiritual  being,  his  capacity  for  noble  develop- 


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ment,  eternal  blefledness  and  glory.  His  value  to 
his  neighbor  is  found  in  the  relation  which  God 
has  instituted  between  men,  by  virtue  of  which  the 
elevation  and  well-being  ot  the  individual  con- 
tributes to  every  other  member  of  society.  The 
value  of  man  to  God  confists  in  the  momentous  fact 
that  in  his  own  development,  and  in  his  contribu- 
tions to  the  race,  he  glorifies  his  Maker  and  Re- 
deemer. 

The  war  has  discovered  decisive  proof  of  the 
manhood  of  a class  among  us,  not  hitherto  regarded 
universally  as  human,  never  fairly  protected  in  the 
rights  and  privileges  pertaining  to  them  as  men. 
We  have  seen  that  evidence  which  we  never  can 
deny  that  the  negro  is  a man,  by  the  possession 
not  only  of  the  conformation  of  the  human  ani- 
mal, but  of  the  elfential  qualities  of  the  human 
mind  and  spirit.  Nay,  more ! In  his  gentleness, 
meekness,  long-suffering  endurance  and  forgive- 
ness, his  constancy  and  fidelity,  his  simple  truth- 
fulness and  enduring  hope  in  the  character  and 
providence  of  God,  we  have  seen  the  choicest 
fruits  which  grace  produces  in  the  human  souh 
Thenceforth  Government  must  recognize  him  as 
a man,  give  him  free  scope  for  physical,  mental, 
and  spiritual  growth  and  action ; preserve  his 
tenure  of  material  and  means  to  realize  his  value  to 
himself,  to  his  countrymen,  and  to  God.  And  God 
has  put  us  under  bonds  to  render  him  this  justice. 
For  in  the  viciflitudes  of  war  his  Providence  put 


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us  in  a peril  that  prompted  us  to  ask  the  black 
man’s  aid  in  rescuing  our  own  dear  rights  and 
privileges.  And  should  we  dare  to  deny  him  his, 
our  cheeks  should  mantle  with  a hue  of  shame 
compared  with  which  the  darkness  of  his  tawny 
skin  would  be  a mark  of  honor. 

Once  more: — We  have  learned  by  sore  expe- 
rience that  the  nation  which  allows  the  power  of 
Government  to  protect  the  authors  of  great  wrong 
will  not  escape  God’s  righteous  judgments.  God 
is  the  avenger  of  wrong.  He  will  not  always 
suffer  it.  And  when  his  wrath  is  roused  it  will  not 
cease  to  burn  until  even  justice  is  exacted.  There 
is  no  future  state  for  nations.  They  must  be  pun- 
ished in  the  earth  before  their  individuality  is  lost. 

This  nation  has  come  out  of  the  fires  of  righteous 
retribution  for  the  sin  of  slavery. 

We  are  not  now  afraid  to  say  that  American 
slavery  was  a crime.  Once,  through  miftaken 
fidelity  to  what  they  thought  to  be  the  word  of 
God,  good  men  were  constrained  to  make  apology 
for  it.  Too  easily  they  fell  into  the  sad  error  of 
those  theologians,  who,  at  the  advent  of  modern 
phyfical  science,  refused  to  accept  its  sure  dis- 
coveries, and  in  the  endeavor  to  save  the  traditional 
interpretation  of  some  obscure  fragments  of  Holy 
Scripture,  perilled  the  faith  of  thinking  men  in  the 
whole  of  it.  By  adhering  to  an  exegesis  which 
was  eagerly  employed  to  sustain  an  enormous  evil, 
true  and  honest  men  helped  to  make  infidels  and 


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atheists.  The  Bible  simply  testifies  that  under  cer- 
tain peculiar  conditions,  God  once  permitted  for  a 
time  a certain  form  of  servitude,  and  warrants 
only  this  conclufion,  that  a sort  of  bondage  could 
once  exist  and  not  involve  a sin.  We  were,  there- 
fore, accustomed  to  say,  with  some  good  reason, 
that  slavery  is  not  a sin  per  se.  But  alas ! upon 
this  slender  basis  American  slavery  was  justified.  Its 
advocates  were  wont  to  form  their  judgment  on 
this  abstraction,  when  the  thing  before  the  Ameri- 
can conscience  was  a concrete  reality.  If  God  did 
once,  for  cause,  permit  a kind  of  servitude,  the 
cause  had  ceased,  and  his  permiflion  gave  no  sanc- 
tion to  such  slavery  as  existed  here.  The  institu- 
tions were  not  the  same,  their  circumstances  were 
totally  diflimilar.  In  such  a case  no  man  of  com- 
mon sense  believes  a precedent  can  hold.  Servi- 
tude must  own  a heathen  origin.  It  was  not  or- 
dained of  God  as  the  family  or  the  state  : it  was 
permitted  as  polygamy.  In  the  Hebrew  common- 
wealth the  mafter  was  allowed  to  own  simply  the 
labor  of  the  servant,  and  that  only  for  a limited 
period.  The  servant  was  protected  in  his  person, 
in  his  right  to  his  family,  in  all  spiritual  privileges. 
He  could  have  his  freedom  at  a price,  at  the  end 
of  a period  fixed  by  law  without  a ransom.  His 
welfare  was  so  effectually  secured  that  it  was  need- 
ful to  provide  by  law  for  the  case  of  one  who,  at 
the  close  of  his  period  of  service,  should  be  so 
content  with  his  condition  as  to  choose  to  remain 


4o 


a servant  and  cleave  to  his  master  and  his  house- 
hold. The  Hebrew  servant  was  not  a chattel 
slave.  Practically  he  was  in  the  place  of  a minor 
ward,  or  even  of  an  adopted  child.  This  condition 
did  not  abolith  any  natural  right,  or  any  mental  or 
spiritual  privilege.  He  could  be  a man,  and  a 
servant  of  Jehovah.  Who  does  not  know  that 
American  slavery  was  totally  the  reverse  of  this ; 
who  does  not  know  that  the  circumftances 
under  which  it  was  enforced  upon  the  negro 
made  neceffary  to  its  enforcement  the  denial  of 
every  natural  right,  and  almost  every  intellec- 
tual and  religious  privilege?  He  could  not,  in 
this  nineteenth  century  of  light  and  liberty,  and 
in  this  land  of  free  institutions  be  kept  a slave, 
unless  held  down  to  a state  of  degradation  approxi- 
mate to  the  condition  of  a brute.  Why  then  did 
we  apologize  for  slavery  in  the  abftract,  when  it 
could  exist  alone  by  concretion  with  these  hideous 
wrongs  ? 

But  not  only  was  apology  for  slavery  found  in 
the  Hebrew  Scriptures.  The  New  Testament 
was  made  to  give  it  sanction.  But  with  what  con- 
sistencv  ? 

J 

A form  of  servitude  existed  while  our  Lord  was 
on  the  earth.  He  did  not  directly  attack  it.  But 
he  did  treat  it  as  he  treated  all  other  evils.  He 
uttered  principles  in  effential  and  eternal  antago- 
nism with  all  such  oppreffion  and  wrong.  Why 
should  he  hew  at  the  branches  of  iniquity,  when 


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the  axe  was  laid  at  the  root  of  the  tree.  He 
taught  the  fatherhood  of  God,  the  brotherhood 
of  man,  the  law  of  universal  charity.  No  man 
could  accept  his  teaching  and  remain  consistently 
the  owner  of  the  flesh  and  blood,  the  destroyer 
of  the  natural  rights  of  his  fellow  man.  He  came 
to  die  that  he  might  redeem  man  from  eternal 
death,  and  form  him  into  the  image  of  God,  that 
in  his  body  and  his  spirit  he  might  glorify  his 
Maker  and  Redeemer.  To  fulfil  this  end  of  his 
being  no  man  could  remain  a chattel  slave;  he 
must  be  the  owner  of  his  body  and  his  spirit,  and 
have  free  scope  for  their  complete  development 
and  action.  He  made  a covenant  with  man  for 
the  salvation  of  his  offspring.  To  ensure  its  condi- 
tions, man  must  be  the  owner  and  custodian  of  his 
children.  Could  American  slavery  confist  with 
such  a gospel  as  this,  and  claim  the  sanction  of  its 
author  ? 

But  one  of  the  Apostles  sent  a slave  to  his 
Christian  master.  Yes,  and  sent  with  him  a title- 
deed  to  the  brotherhood  which  in  itself  annulled 
every  oppreflive  element  of  servitude. 

The  man  who  has  studied  the  exigencies  of 
slavery  in  this  country  knows  full  well  that  obe- 
dience to  the  spirit  and  the  precepts  of  Jesus 
Christ  would  have  brought  the  institution  to  a 
certain  end.  Conformity  to  these  would  have 
surely  furnished  the  conditions,  under  which  the 
negro  would  have  become  both  eager  and  able  to 
6 


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demand  and  vindicate  his  liberty.  The  guards  that 
stood  between  him  and  his  freedom,  were  planted 
in  defiance  of  every  principle  of  Christianity,  and 
stood  a perpetual  insult  to  its  Author. 

When,  therefore,  the  accursed  thing  was  not 
simply  tolerated,  but  defended ; not  regretfully 
continued  until  wise  means  for  its  abolishment 
could  be  provided,  but  claimed  to  be  by  divine 
right  perpetual,  when  it  was  declared  to  be  the 
peculiar  million  of  the  people  of  this  country  to 
conserve  it  and  extend  it;  then  the  cup  of  iniquity 
was  full,  and  God  could  no  longer  suspend  his  judg- 
ments. 

The  nation  endeavored  to  excuse  itself  because 
slavery  was  municipal,  and  they  who  were  directly 
connected  with  it  were  alone  accountable.  But 
the  conscience  of  the  people  could  not  long  absolve 
itself,  the  conscience  of  the  world  held  them  re- 
sponfible.  The  nation  had  permitted  the  planting 
and  growth  of  slavery,  adopted  laws  which  involved 
a sanction  of  it,  defended  it  with  the  whole  power 
of  Government.  The  nation  was  implicated  in  the 
crime;  it  shared  the  fearful  retribution.  By  solemn 
discipline  we  now  have  learned  that  a people  can- 
not countenance  sin  and  expect  the  favor  of  a just 
Providence.  They  may  compromise  with  wrong, 
they  cannot  compromise  with  God. 

Such,  fathers  and  brethren,  are  some  of  the  grand 
results  of  the  war. 

It  has  establifhed  our  nationality  in  the  su- 


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premacy  of  the  Federal  Union,  and  the  tenure  of 
an  undivided  and  unique  domain  ; providing  the 
conditions  of  security  from  foreign  foes,  of  internal 
prosperity  and  peace.  It  has  opened  all  portions  of 
the  land  to  the  enterprise  and  industry  of  all  the 
people,  and  so  created  a common  interest  in  it, 
and  prepared  the  way  for  the  full  delopment  of  its 
resources.  It  has  affimilated  our  civil  and  domes- 
tic institutions,  and  so  secured  the  harmonious 
working  of  our  republican  economy.  It  has  formed 
in  the  mind  of  the  people  true  ideas  of  the  sanctity, 
the  objects,  and  the  ethics  of  government.  It  has 
put  an  end  to  a public  crime  which  forfeited  the 
favor  of  God  and  the  protection  of  his  providence. 
It  has  admitted  millions  of  human  souls  to  liberty, 
and  light,  and  hope. 

And  shall  we  say  that  these  results  are  not  vital 
to  the  highest  interests  of  every  inhabitant  of  this 
land  ? Nay  ! rather  do  they  not  enter  into  the  ac- 
complishing purposes  of  Him  who  has  appointed  a 
mission  for  the  nation,  and  is  leading  them  to 
accept  and  discharge  it ; and  even  into  the  broader 
plan  by  which  he  is  working  out  in  his  own  way 
and  time  the  destinies  of  all  mankind  ? Surely 
then,  God  has  made  the  war  to  be,  what  we  most 
earnestly  prayed  and  hoped  it  might  become,  a 
bleffing  to  the  nation  and  the  race. 

It  is  true,  we  do  not  see  at  once  the  full  fruition 
of  our  hopes.  These  voluntary  forces  that  have 
been  called  forth  and  set  in  motion  cannot  be  im- 


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mediately  revoked  and  quieted,  but  notwithstand- 
ing their  persistent  energy  and  oppofition,  under 
God’s  good  leading,  they  will  resolve  themselves 
in  that  resultant  line  which  leads  to  the  fulfilment 
of  our  expectation.  We  shall  be  one  in  the  free 
unity  of  confidence,  esteem  and  love,  as  we  now 
are  one  by  stress  of  power.  Only  let  us  be  patient, 
confiderate,  forgiving,  generous  ; taking  counsel  of 
God  and  following  the  tokens  of  his  will ; and 
time  will  moderate  the  paffions  now  so  restless  and 
disturbing,  and  correct  the  judgments  now  so  diverse 
and  opposite,  and  we  shall  come  to  harmony  and 
rest  at  last. 

To  the  success  of  this  grand  cause  which  to-day 
we  have  contemplated,  the  College  of  New  Jersey 
has  made  no  mean  contribution.  Many  of  her 
sons  have  been  pre-eminent  in  the  work  of  instruct- 
ing the  public  mind  in  the  true  import  and  issues 
of  the  crisis.  These  have  gone  forth  from  this 
seat  of  learning  destined  to  become  clafiic  in  the 
literature  of  civil  science.  Others  of  our  brethren 
have  stood  in  the  councils  of  the  state  and  nation; 
or  have  served  most  elfentially  the  common  cause 
in  the  labors  of  the  Christian  and  Sanitary  Com- 
missions. 

But  we  especially  commemorate  to-day  those 
who  rendered  service  in  the  army  of  the  country. 
Taking  up  the  roll  of  honor,  and  tracing  out  the 
names  of  those  once  connected  with  the  College, 
as  far  as  we  have  been  able  to  discover  about  one 


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hundred  of  our  brethren  were  aflociated  with  the 
service.  We  count  four  Major-Generals,  Boyle, 
Blair,  Belknap  and  Van  Cleve ; one  Brigadier 
General,  three  Colonels,  four  Lieutenant-Colonels; 
the  rest  distributed  through  every  arm  of  the 
service,  holding  every  rank,  down  to  the  common 
soldier.*  The  living  we  cannot  attempt  to  name 
in  this  address.  They  are  not  unknown,  and  un- 
cherished by  their  grateful  countrymen  and  breth- 
ren. The  mournful  roll  of  the  dead  we  call.  These 
are  they  who  won  the  crown  of  martyrdom  : 

Colonel  Cornelius  W.  Tolies. — He  was  graduated 
in  1848,  was  appointed  in  July  1861,  Assistant  Ad- 
jutant General  of  the  First  New  Jersey  detached 
brigade,  by  Governor  Olden.  August  17th,  he 
became  First-Lieutenant  in  the  Thirteenth  In- 
fantry of  the  regular  army.  August  20th,  1862, 
he  alfumed  the  pofition  of  Chief  Quartermaster  of 
the  Sixth  Army  Corps,  and  held  it  under  Generals 
Franklin,  Sedgwick  and  Wright.  The  prestige  of 
the  Sixth  Corps  is  said  by  competent  authority  to 
have  been  measurably  due  to  his  ability  and  fidelity. 
He  was  under  fire  in  nearly  all  the  battles  of  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  saved  the  materiel  of 
the  army  at  the  retreat  to  Harrison’s  Landing,  and 
at  the  retrograde  movement  from  Centreville  to 
Drainsville,  and  laid  the  pontoon  bridge  at  Fred- 
ericksburg for  Franklin’s  Corps.  General  Meigs 


* See  Roll  of  Honor. 


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paid  a flattering  tribute  to  his  worth  in  a general 
order,  and  the  Secretary  of  War  mentioned  his 
name  with  honor  in  his  report.  He  was  a man  of 
strong,  active  and  polished  mind,  of  warm  affec- 
tions, high  toned  principles,  self-reliant  and  brave, 
yet  modest  and  considerate  of  others.  While  act- 
ing as  Chief  Quartermaster  on  General  Sheridan’s 
Staff,  surrounded  by  a small  escort  of  twenty-five 
men,  guarding  a single  ambulance,  himself  un- 
armed, he  was  shot,  and  died  October  i ith,  1864. 

[New  Orleans,  La.,  Oct.  20,  1866. 

Dear  Sir : — * * * The  ability,  energy  and  per- 
severance displayed  by  Colonel  Tolies,  while  sur- 
rounded as  he  was  during  the  time  he  served  in 
the  Valley,  by  the  innumerable  difficulties  which 
naturally  attend  an  army  newly  and  quickly  or- 
ganized, stamped  him  as  one  of  the  ablest  officers 
in  his  department.  I cannot  say  too  much  in  his 
praise.  * * * 

Very  respectfully, 

Your  obedient  servant, 

P.  H.  SHERIDAN, 
Major-General  U.  S.  A. 

Prof.  H.  C.  Cameron, 

College  of  New  Jersey,  Princeton,  N.  J.] 

2.  Dr.  Joseph  A.  Freeman  was  born  at  Paterson, 
New  Jersey,  and  graduated  with  one  of  the  honors 
of  the  College  in  1852.  He  received  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1856.  He  was  first 


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Assistant  Surgeon,  and  afterwards  Surgeon  of  the 
Thirteenth  New  Jersey  Volunteers.  Subsequently 
as  United  States  Affistant  Surgeon,  he  was  in  charge 
of  a general  hospital  at  Nashville,  where  he  died 
of  disease  contracted  while  in  discharge  of  his  self- 
sacrificing  duties,  at  the  age  of  31,  December  29th, 
1864.  He  was  efteemed  by  those  who  knew  him 
for  rare  intellectual,  moral  and  social  qualities. 

3.  Adjutant  Richard  M.  Strong  was  born  at  Al- 
bany, N.  Y.,  June  10th,  1835,  and  graduated  in 
1854.  In  1865  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He 
entered  the  army  from  most  peremptory  convic- 
tions of  duty.  He  was  first  appointed  a member 
of  the  Staff  of  General  Rathbone,  and  afterward 
entered  upon  aCtive  service  in  the  field  as  Adjutant 
of  the  One-hundred-and-seventy-seventh  New 
York  Volunteers.  He  accompanied  the  Banks 
expedition,  and  died  of  disease  contracted  on  the 
low  lands  of  Louisiana,  May  12th,  1863.  W$  re- 
member him  as  a gifted  and  accomplifhed  scholar, 
an  urbane  and  finished  gentleman,  a warm  and  con- 
stant friend,  a simple,  earnest,  active,  consecrated 
follower  of  Jesus  Christ. 

4.  Captain  Henry  Harrison  Woolsey  was  born 
at  Pennington,  New  Jersey,  April  1st,  1837,  and 
graduated  in  1856.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
in  1859.  During  August,  1861,  he  entered  as  a 
private  soldier  in  the  Fifth  New  Jersey  Volunteers, 
but  was  almost  immediately  appointed  Second  Lieu- 
tenant. He  acted  as  Quartermaster  in  the  Penin- 


sular  campaign.  At  the  battle  of  Williamsburgh 
he  was  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight,  and  for  gallantry 
was  made  a First  Lieutenant.  He  was  in  all  the 
campaigns  conducted  by  General  McClellan.  His 
first  wound  was  received  in  August,  1862.  At  the 
battle  of  Chancellorsville  he  was  in  command  of 
his  regiment,  and  was  slightly  wounded.  He  re- 
ceived a third  wound  at  Gettysburg.  From  No- 
vember, 1862,  to  May,  1864,  he  was  detached  from 
his  regiment  and  served  as  Provost  Marshal  of  the 
First  Congreflional  Diftrict  of  New  Jersey.  His 
efforts  were  of  great  value  in  the  work  of  rein- 
forcing the  army.  He  afterwards  joined  his  regi- 
ment, and  was  mortally  wounded,  18th  of  June, 
before  Petersburg.  Under  the  tender  and  affec- 
tionate care  of  Dr.  Edward  L.  Welling,  also  a 
graduate  of  the  College,  he  passed  away,  saying, 
“ I die  in  the  glorious  cause.  I feel  that  I have 
not  lived  in  vain  for  this  world  or  the  world  to 
come.”  The  tidings  of  his  death  reached  his 
family  while  they  were  surrounding  the  grave  of 
his  young  and  lovely  wife.  The  interment  was 
partially  completed,  and  the  place  was  guarded 
until  the  remains  of  the  hufband  were  brought 
home  and  laid  in  the  same  consecrated  earth. 

Henry  Woolsey  was  one  who  cannot  be  forgot- 
ten— a gentle,  cheerful,  loving,  faithful  spirit,  that 
has  left  memorials  in  many  hearts  that  will  not 
perifh.  He  was  an  humble,  faithful  believer  in  Jesus 
Christ. 


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5-  Captain  Thomas  R.  Haines  was  born  in  Suffex 
county,  in  New  Jersey,  and  graduated  in  1857. 
Before  entering  the  service  he  was  admitted  to  the 
bar,  and  entered  his  profeffion  with  unusual  pros- 
pects. He  was  offered  the  pofition  of  First  Lieu- 
tenant of  First  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  and  after- 
wards served  by  promotion  as  Captain.  His  ability 
and  fidelity  were  commended  by  all  his  superior 
officers.  He  fell  by  a piftol  shot,  and  a blow  of 
the  sabre,  June  6th,  1862,  at  Harrisonburg,  Va. 
He  possessed  a clear,  vigorous,  and  retentive  mind, 
a frank,  sincere,  genial  dispofition.  His  Christian 
character  was  gentle,  earnest,  pure.  Few  blows 
made  so  many  hearts  to  bleed  as  that  which  laid 
him  low. 

6.  Captain  Cortlandt  Van  Renffelaer  was  born 
June  5th,  1838,  and  graduated  in  1858,  and  was 
class  orator.  He  was  admitted  to  the  bar  of  New 
Jersey.  Early  in  the  year  1861  he  was  appointed 
First  Lieutenant  of  theThirteenth  Infantry,  United 
States  Army.  At  the  close  of  the  year  1862  he 
was  promoted  to  a Captaincy.  He  was  actively 
engaged  at  the  siege  of  Vickfburg,  and  in  subse- 
quent  battles  with  General  Sherman.  He  died 
October  7th,  1864.  His  mind  was  vigorous,  logi- 
cal, comprehensive,  and  cultured  in  a high  degree. 
To  strangers  he  was  reserved,  to  friends  warm  and 
true.  He  became  a believer  in  Christ  before  his 
death,  and  departed  in  peace  and  hope. 

7.  Lieutenant  Josiah  S.  Studdiford  was  born  at 

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5° 


Lambertville  in  1837,  and  graduated  in  1858.  He 
soon  after  commenced  the  practice  of  law.  He 
was  appointed  Adjutant  of  the  Fourth  New  Jersey 
Volunteers,  and  accepted  the  pofition,  saying  to  his 
friends,  “Many  families  are  giving  their  sons  to 
the  country.  There  are  five  of  us  brothers.  We 
have  no  representative  in  the  army.  Two  are  in 
the  ministry.  One  is  a physician.  The  other  is 
too  young.  I can  go — I ought  to  go.”  At  the 
battle  of  Gaines’  Mill  he  was  taken  prisoner.  He 
fell  at  the  battle  of  South  Mountain.  His  Colonel 
wrote:  “I  have  lost  my  best  officer.”  To  the  at- 
tractions of  a choice  natural  character  he  added 
the  graces  of  a Christian  life. 

8.  Colonel  Abm.  Zabriikie  was  born  February 
1 8th,  1841,  and  graduated  in  1859.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1861,  he  was  appointed  Adjutant  of  the  Ninth 
New  Jersey  Regiment.  He  accompanied  Burn- 
side’s expedition  to  North  Carolina.  In  December, 

1862,  he  became  Lieutenant-Colonel;  in  January, 

1863,  Colonel  and  Acting  Brigadier-General. 
February,  1864,  his  term  of  service  expired.  At 
his  solicitation  the  regiment  re-enlisted.  On  the 
1 6th  of  May,  while  at  the  right  wing  of  General 
Butler’s  army,  he  was  wounded,  and  died  May 
24th,  1864.  A resolution  of  the  Common  Council 
of  his  native  city  says:  “One  will  fail  to  find 
a braver,  purer,  or  more  self-sacrificing  spirit.” 

9.  Captain  Charles  H.  Dod  was  born  in  Prince- 
ton, June  13th,  1841,  and  graduated  in  1862.  He 


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soon  after  entered  the  army  as  First  Lieutenant  of 
the  Second  New  Jersey  Cavalry.  After  a severe 
campaign  in  the  South-west  he  was  transferred  to 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  served  as  Assistant 
Adjutant  General  on  General  Hancock’s  staff. 
Prostrated  by  disease,  he  died  August  27th,  1864. 
His  nature  was  gentle  and  beautiful.  Grace  devel- 
oped in  him  the  noble  qualities  of  his  manhood. 
For  only  a few  lost  can  we  mourn  as  we  did  for 
him.  He  sleeps  with  his  fathers  in  the  consecrated 
ground  near  which  we  now  are  gathered. 

10.  Colonel  Hugh  Janeway  did  not  graduate. 
He  entered  the  army  at  twenty  years  of  age,  as 
First  Lieutenant  of  the  First  New  Jersey  Cavalry, 
immediately  after  the  first  Bull  Run  repulse.  He 
rose  by  acts  of  gallantry,  through  the  grades  of  Cap- 
tain, Major,  Lieutenant-Colonel,  to  Colonel.  In 
December,  1861,  in  a raid  near  Alexandria,  he  re- 
ceived eight  slug  and  bullet  wounds.  The  enemy 
were  about  to  kill  him,  but  seeing  his  wounds,  left 
him  to  die.  He  summoned  strength  and  crawled 
to  his  regiment.  At  Chancellorsville  a bullet 
grazed  his  forehead,  touching  his  forehead  with 
his  hand,  another  ball  took  off  his  finger.  After 
the  fall  of  Petersbug  and  Richmond,  in  a charge 
near  Painesville,  while  rallying  his  men,  a ball 
pierced  his  temple  and  he  fell.  He  was  a kind, 
thoughtful,  upright,  sincere  and  truthful  man — 
a calm,  courageous,  energetic  officer.  He  was  a 
Christian.  When  I remember  these  last  two 


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spirits,  they  do  not  seem  to  have  been  made  for 
war.  But  the  leffon  of  their  heroism  is  precious. 
There  is  a courage  in  the  gentle  soul,  more  noble 
and  enduring  far,  than  the  impulse  of  brute  paffion, 
and  the  momentum  of  unguided  will. 

These  are  our  own  lamented  and  honored  dead.* 

Will  your  patience  yet  suffer  one  word  more 
concerning  those  who,  living  or  dead,  are  not 
usually  named  on  the  lists  of  fame.  I mean  the 
private  soldiers  of  the  rank  and  file. 

By  clear  perception,  prompt  forethought,  sharp 
sagacity,  practical  judgment,  versatility  and  endur- 
ance, the  American  soldier  stands  far  beyond  any 
other  soldier  yet  developed  in  the  school  of  war. 
Study  the  march  of  Sherman  from  the  river  to  the 
sea,  and  know  that  if  comprehenfive  intellect 
planned  most  marvellously,  the  readiness,  patience, 
self-sacrifice,  the  energy,  perseverance,  ready  re- 
sources, implicit  obedience,  and  unqualified  cour- 
age of  the  private  soldier,  converted  the  com- 
mander’s plans  into  achievements.  Trace  the  pro- 
gress of  the  great  Captain’s  movement  on  his  chosen 
line,  and  know  that  if  irrefistible  will  did  compel  a 
way  through  seeming  impoflibility  to  success,  it  was 
because  self-devoting  fidelity  recoiled  before  no 
bloody  sacrifice. 

My  countrymen,  be  not  unmindful  of  the  com- 
mon soldier.  Those  of  us  who  have  been  with 


/ 


*See  In  Memoriam, 


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him  at  the  lonely  picket  post,  and  in  the  busy 
camp,  in  winter’s  quiet,  and  on  the  eve  of  battle, 
in  scenes  of  peril  and  in  the  praying  tent,  or  round 
the  homely  communion  board,  have  found  it  in 
our  hearts  to  reverence  the  man  who  went  for  the 
work  and  not  the  circumftance  of  war;  the  cause 
and  not  the  honors  of  the  country,  and  stood  with- 
out the  sound  of  title  and  the  blaze  of  uniform, 
the  worn,  browned,  scarred  soldier  of  the  rank  and 
file. 

If  it  be  my  lot  to  live  until  years  pass  over  me, 
and  little  ones  shall  cluster  round  my  feet  to  hear 
an  old  man’s  story  of  the  war,  I may  tell  them 
with  infirmity  of  pride,  not  unpardonable  even 
now,  how  I sat  in  familiar  intercourse  with  the 
great  leader  and  martyr  of  the  country’s  cause ; 
and  stood  befide  the  great  Captain,  as  with  finger 
on  his  chart,  he  traced  the  movements  of  the 
grand  campaign  ; and  took  by  the  hand  the  men 
whose  counsels  in  the  cabinet  and  field  preserved 
the  fruits  of  victory.  But  the  tale  will  not  be 
complete  until  I boast  with  grateful  pride  that  my 
voice  was  given  to  plead  for  the  commiflion  of 
noble  Christian  men  who  carried  home  and  sanc- 
tuary to  the  battle-field,  and  camp  and  hospital ; 
that  I have  shared  the  common  soldier’s  couch  and 
fare;  these  hands  have  ministered  to  his  needs  upon 
the  bed  of  pain,  and  broken  for  him  the  bread  of 
life. 

Verily,  they  all  shall  have  their  due  reward. 


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Living  ! — a nation  points  to  them  with  gratitude  as 
its  deliverers ; millions  of  dulky  hands  are  lifted 
for  them  to  heaven  with  heartfelt  benedictions. 
Voices  come  echoing  across  the  sea  from  the  op- 
pressed and  struggling  of  every  land:  “Ye  have 
made  new  ground  for  the  anchor  of  our  wavering 
hope.” 

Dead ! — they  sweetly  sleep.  The  tongue  of 
gratitude  speaks  tenderly  their  names,  the  hand  of 
affection  treasures  their  sacred  dust.  And  if  they 
were  true  to  God  as  well  as  country,  they  have 
gone  to  the  embrace  of  Him  who  knows  what  it 
is  to  suffer  and  to  die  for  others,  to  blend  the  leffer 
lustre  of  their  honor  with  the  eternal  splendor  of 
the  Redeemer’s  glory. 


IN  MEMORIAM 


BY 

PROF.  HENRY  C.  CAMERON. 


i.  Captain  Henry  C.  Bartlett,  son  of  Gamaliel 
and  Mary  Bartlett,  was  born  at  Stanhope,  N.  J., 
April  ioth,  1827.  He  was  graduated  in  the  Cen- 
tennial Class  of  Nassau  Hall,  in  1847,  and  studied 
law  with  Peter  T.  Woodbury,  Esq.,  of  New  York 
city,  where  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar.  He  prac- 
tised his  profeflion  for  sometime  and  then  became  a 
banker  and  broker  in  New  York.  He  was  quite 
successful  in  bufiness,  retired  and  spent  a year  in 
Texas.  On  the  breaking  out  of  the  war  he  was 
redding  in  Caldwell,  N.  J.  After  the  battle  of 
Bull  Run  he  enlisted  a company,  and  was  muftered 
into  service  in  the  7th  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  Au- 
gust 28th,  1861.  He  participated  in  all  the  battles 
in  which  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  was  engaged, 
commanded  his  regiment  in  the  seven  days’  fight 
before  Richmond,  and  by  his  gallantry  won  the 


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encomiums  of  his  commanding  officers.  His 
health  failed  in  consequence  of  his  exposure  at 
the  battle  of  Frederickfburg,  and  he  resigned 
January  14th,  1863.  Upon  the  reftoration  of  his 
health  he  was  appointed  Captain,  and  affisted  in 
the  organization  of  the  33d  New  Jersey  Volunteers. 
He  was  with  the  regiment  in  all  its  engagements 
in  the  South-West,  and  in  the  march  from  Chat- 
tanooga to  Atlanta,  until  May  8th,  1864,  when  he 
was  mortally  wounded  while  gallantly  leading  a 
battalion  against  the  enemy's  works  at  “ Dug  Gap,” 
near  Dalton,  Georgia.  He  died  the  next  morn- 
ing. Thus  fell  one  whom  his  numerous  friends 
will  long  remember  for  his  genial  character,  social 
disposition,  devoted  patriotism,  and  well-tried  cour- 
age. 

2.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Isaac  K.  Casey,  son  of 

the  Hon,  Joseph  Casey,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Court 
of  Claims,  was  born  in  Pennsylvania,  January  17th, 

1844.  Colonel  Casey  was  educated  at  home  until 
he  was  prepared  to  enter  upon  his  higher  acade- 

mic studies  at  Princeton,  in  the  College  of  New 
Jersey,  where  he  remained  more  than  two  years. 

Shortly  after  leaving  College  he  entered  the 
army,  in  response  to  the  summons  which,  in 
the  year  1861,  caused  so  many  others  among 
our  gallant  youth  to  fly  to  arms,  in  defence  of 
the  country.  In  his  patriotic  and  military  en- 
thusiasm he  volunteered  at  first  as  a private  soldier, 


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but  was  afterwards  appointed  a Lieutenant  of  cav- 
alry by  Governor  Curtin,  and  subsequently  by 
President  Lincoln,  an  aid-de-camp,  with  the  rank 
of  Captain.  He  served  in  the  army  more  than 
four  years,  on  the  staffs,  succeffively,  of  General 
Sturgis,  General  Casey  and  General  Carter.  He 
participated  in  many  battles  of  the  war,  among 
which  were  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run,  the 
battles  of  South  Mountain,  Antietam  and  Frede- 
ricksburg, on  the  occasion  of  Burnside’s  attack, 
in  which  last-named  encounter  he  was  slightly 
wounded.  Twice  brevetted  for  gallant  and  meri- 
torious services,  he  left  the  army  in  the  year  1866, 
with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  purposing  to 
carry  into  a life  of  business  the  same  energy  which 
he  had  brought  to  his  duty  as  a soldier,  when  he 
was  suddenly  arrested  by  consumption,  and  stricken 
down  in  the  full  flufh  of  manly  vigor,  and  at  the 
very  threshold  of  his  career  in  life.  Patient  in 
suffering,  he  died  in  the  full  confidence  of  Chris- 
tian hope,  at  Washington,  D.  C.,  March  5th,  1867. 

3.  Dr.  Ferdinand  V.  Dayton,  son  of  the  Hon. 
William  L.  Dayton  and  Margaret  (Van  Derveer) 
Dayton,  was  born  in  Freehold,  N.  J.,  July  29th, 
1834.  Prepared  for  College  by  Dr,  John  Wood- 
hull,  of  Freehold,  New  Jersey,  he  entered  the 
Sophomore  Class,  at  Princeton,  in  1851,  and  was 
graduated  in  1854.  He  pursued  his  medical 
studies  in  Trenton,  New  Jersey,  in  Philadelphia, 
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and  in  Europe,  and  received  his  degree  of  M.  D. 
at  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  in  1857,  He 
practised  his  profession  in  Trenton,  N,  J.,  Gow- 
anus,  N.  Y.,  Philipfburg,  N,  J,,  and  Mauch 
Chunk,  Pa.  He  entered  the  service  as  Affistant 
Surgeon,  1st  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  and  participated 
in  its  many  engagements  on  the  Potomac  and  in 
the  Shenandoah  Valley.  Appointed  Surgeon,  2d 
New  Jersey  Cavalry,  July  12th,  1863,  he  served 
in  the  West  and  South  until  muftered  out,  October 
24th,  1865,  He  was  in  the  campaigns  against 
Forrest,  under  Generals  A,  J,  Smith  and  Sturgis, 
and  in  the  Missouri  campaign,  under  General 
Pleasanton.  From  March  31st  to  May  17th, 

1864,  he  acted  as  Surgeon-in-chief,  Cavalry  Divis- 
ion, 1 6th  Army  Corps,  and  from  February  nth, 

1 865,  until  muftered  out,  he  was  Surgeon  in  charge 
of  the  district  of  Natches,  Miss.  On  March  20th, 

1866,  he  was  brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel  for 
meritorious  services.  His  faithful  discharge  of  his 
duty  won  for  him  the  confidence  of  his  com- 
manders. His  death,  which  was  sudden  and  un- 
expected, occurred  at  Natchez,  November  1st, 
1866. 

4.  Dr.  William  P.  Grier,  only  son  of  the  Hon. 
Robert  C.  Grier,  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court  of  the  United  States,  was  born  in  Allegheny 
City,  Pa.,  December  17th,  1834.  He  was  pre- 
pared for  College  by  Dr.  Samuel  Crawford,  of 


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Philadelphia,  and  was  for  a short  time  connected 
with  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1851,  he  entered  Brown  University,  and  in 
the  winter  of  1852  he  entered  the  College  of  New 
Jersey.  Here  he  remained  about  a year  and  then 
became  an  Assistant  Civil  Engineer  on  the  Sun- 
bury  and  Erie  Railroad.  He  subsequently  studied 
medicine  with  Dr.  Joseph  Carson,  of  Philadelphia, 
and  received  the  degree  of  M.  D.  from  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania  in  1858.  He  was,  for  some- 
time, a phyfician  at  the  Blockley  Almfhouse,  and 
afterwards  one  of  the  resident  physicians  of  the 
Proteftant  Episcopal  Hospital,  in  Philadelphia. 
He  engaged  in  private  practice  in  Philadelphia, 
and  subsequently  in  Peoria,  111.,  where  he  was  very 
successful.  After  the  battle  of  Fort  Donelson, 
he  volunteered,  and  labored  in  the  field  and  in  the 
hospital.  He  was  appointed  Affistant  Surgeon  in 
the  United  States  Army,  July  23d,  1862,  and  served 
in  the  Army'of  Virginia,  on  the  field  at  the  second 
battle  of  Bull  Run,  in  the  Affistant  Surgeon-Gen- 
eral's office,  and  in  the  hospital  at  Wafhington; 
was  then  ordered  to  the  Chester  hospital,  Pennsyl- 
vania, and  finally  to  the  Medical  Director’s  office 
in  Philadelphia,  where  he  discharged  his  duties 
faithfully  and  energetically  until  after  the  close  of 
the  war.  He  was  assigned  to  the  Department  of 
Arkansas,  October  23d,  1 865,  and  while  on  his  way 
to  join  his  regiment,  the  3d  United  States  Cavalry, 
he  was  blown  up  on  the  steamer  Miami,  near  the 
mouth  of  the  Arkansas  river,  January  28th,  1866. 


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Dr.  Grier  married  Miss  Caroline  Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  Isaac  Smith,  Esq.,  of  Philadelphia,  in  Feb- 
ruary, 1865.  Mrs.  Grier  died  in  December,  1865. 
Dr.  Grier  was  a man  of  fine  personal  appearance, 
of  exuberant  spirits,  great  kindness  and  generosity 
of  heart.  His  later  experience  in  life,  and  upon 
the  battle  field,  had  developed  the  finer  traits  of 
his  character.  His  courageous  and  faithful  dis- 
charge of  his  duties,  won  for  him  not  only  the 
approval  of  his  superior  officers,  but  the  grateful, re- 
collection of  those  whom  he  so  afliduously  attended, 
and  his  friends  lovingly  cherifh  his  memory. 

5.  Lieutenant-Colonel  Thomas  M.  Hall,  son 
of  the  Rev.  John  HaSl,  D.  D.,  was  born  in  Phila- 
delphia, June  2d,  1835.  He  was  graduated  at 
Naffau  Hall,  in  1853,  studied  law  with  the  Hon.  W. 
M.  Meredith,  of  Philadelphia,  and  was  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  October,  1856.  His  character  for  in- 
tegrity and  earneftness  of  purpose,  and  his  attain- 
ments in  his  profeffion  were  such  as  to  win  the 
respect  of  his  aflociates,  the  confidence  of  the 
courts,  and  the  hearty  friendship  of  all  who  knew 
him.  Although  in  feeble  health  his  patriotism 
induced  him  to  enter  the  service  of  his  country, 
and  in  August,  1862,  he  became  Adjutant  of  the 
1 21st  Pennsylvania  Volunteers.  In  the  field  his 
bravery  was  conspicuous.  At  Frederickfburg  he 
was  in  General  Meade’s  Division,  which  broke 
through  the  rebel  lines.  His  horse  was  shot  under 


him.  At  Chancellorsville  and  Gettysburg  his  con- 
duct was  such,  that  coupled  with  the  discharge  of 
his  duties  as  Adjutant,  it  recommended  his  promo- 
tion. His  brother  officers  requefted  his  appoint- 
ment as  Major,  and  he  subsequently  became 
Lieutenant-Colonel  of  his  regiment.  But  the 
fatigues  and  exposure  of  the  field  developed  the 
disease  which  had  long  lurked  in  his  conftitution. 
Broken  down  in  health  he  was  compelled  reluc- 
tantly to  refign,  and  returned  home  to  linger  for  a 
while  among  friends  and  then  to  die.  Simple  and 
unostentatious  in  his  piety,  faithful  and  conscien- 
tious in  the  discharge  of  his  duties  in  civil  and  in 
military  life,  his  devotion  to  his  country  led  to  his 
death,  November  6th,  1864. 

6.  Henri  S.  Holden,  was  born  in  Hingham, 
Mass.,  August  31st,  1841.  He  was  prepared  for 
College  by  the  Rev.  J.  F,  Pingrey,  of  Newark,  N. 
J.,  and  entered  the  Sophomore  Class  of  Princeton 
College  in  i860.  He  was  one  of  the  first  scholars 
in  his  class,  but  left  College  and  joined  the  army 
in  September,  1862.  His  military  service  cul- 
minated in  Burnside’s  attack  upon  Fredericks- 
burg. At  the  expiration  of  his  term  of  service,  in 
1863,  he  entered  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Princeton,  N.  J.  His  devotion  to  the  cause  of  his 
country  laid  the  foundation  of  that  disease  which 
gradually  developed  itself  and  ended  his  career, 
November  10th,  1864.  His  fine  talents  and  excel- 


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lent  scholarfhip  had  been  consecrated  to  his  Re- 
deemer, and  this  consecration  and  his  Christian 
faith  were  the  consolations  of  his  dying  hour. 

7.  Adjutant  G.  Drummond  Hunt,  Jr.,  son  of 
G.  Drummond  Hunt,  and  Catharine  A.  Hunt, 
was  born  near  Lexington,  Ky.,  April  24th,  1842. 
He  was  for  a time  connected  with  Transylvania 
University,  Ky.,  and  previous  to  his  entering  Col- 
lege at  Princeton  he  studied  at  Plainfield,  N.  J. 
From  a deep  and  urgent  sense  of  duty  he  enlisted 
in  the  service  of  his  country  in  the  spring  of  1862, 
as  First  Lieutenant,  4th  Kentucky  Volunteers,  of 
which  his  brother,  P.  Burgess  Hunt,  was  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel. General  Fry  selected  him  as  his 
Adling  Aflistant  Adjutant  General,  and  in  this 
position  he  served  during  the  movements  before 
Corinth.  In  October,  1862,  he  was  appointed 
Inspector  of  the  3d  Brigade,  3d  Division,  14th 
Army  Corps,  and  in  April,  1863,  he  was  commis- 
sioned Adjutant  of  the  3d  Kentucky  Volunteers, 
and  shared  its  gallant  fortunes.  In  the  battle  of 
Chickamauga  his  valor  was  so  conspicuous  that  he 
received  the  special  commendation,  not  only  of 
his  brigade  and  divifion  commanders,  but  that  of 
Major-General  Thomas  himself.  He  seized  the 
colors  of  a routed  regiment,  in  the  vicinity  of  his 
own,  succeeded  in  rallying  them,  and  was  gratified 
by  seeing  them  return  and  fight  most  gallantly.  In 
the  battle  of  Million  Ridge,  November  25th,  his 


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gallantry  was  even  more  marked.  In  the  charge 
he  led  his  regiment,  and  was  twenty  yards  in  ad- 
vance of  every  one,  and  within  one  hundred  and 
fifty  yards  of  Bragg’s  headquarters,  where  he  pro- 
posed to  plant  his  State  flag  which  he  bore  in  his 
hand.  But  hi  the  moment  of  anticipated  victory 
he  fell,  mortally  wounded,  and  died,  November 
29th,  1863.  Thus  fell  as  “noble,  pure  and  gallant 
a youth  as  ever  yielded  up  life  in  the  cause  of  his 
countrv.”  Gentle  and  modest  in  character,  affec- 
tionate  in  dispofition,  genial  in  manners,  he  was  a 
universal  favorite.  A Christian  from  his  youth, 
his  piety  bore  the  trying  test  of  the  camp  unin- 
jured, and  he  died  a Christian  partriot  and  soldier. 

8.  Dr.  Webster  Lindsley,  son  of  Dr.  Harvey 
and  Emeline  C.  Lindsley,  was  born  in  Washing- 
ton, D.  C.,  October  6th,  1835.  Prepared  in  several 
academies,  he  spent  some  time  at  the  Columbian 
College,  near  Walhington,  D.  C.,  then  entered  the 
College  at  Princeton,  N.  J.,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1855.  He  pursued  his  professional  studies 
with  his  father,  and  attended  medical  lectures  at 
Harvard  University,  from  which  he  received*  the 
degree  of  M.  D.,  in  1857.  He  immediately  sailed 
for  Europe,  and  spent  two  years  in  Paris,  in  arduous 
study,  and  in  unremitting  attendance  upon  the 
medical  lectures,  and  in  the  hospitals.  He  returned 
home  thoroughly  qualified  for  the  duties  of  his 
profeflion,  and  at  once  began  a successful  practice. 


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He  was  selected  by  the  Government  and  the 
Colonization  Society  to  take  charge  of  a ship  load 
of  re-captured  Africans,  and  restore  them  to  their 
native  land.  He  successfully  accomplifhed  this 
commiflion  and  returned  from  Liberia  in  Decem- 
ber, i860.  May  28th,  1861,  he  Was  appointed 
Affistant  Surgeon  in  the  United  States  Army,  and 
after  service  in  various  hospitals,  he  took  the  field 
with  the  1 8th  United  States  Infantry,  and  served 
in  the  grand  armies  of  Rosecrans  and  Thomas,  in 
Kentucky  and  Tenneffee,  Alabama  and  Mississippi. 
He  was  present  at  many  of  the  most  important 
battles  in  the  West,  in  1 862-3,  especially  at  Shiloh, 
and  subsequently  at  Murfreefboro’,  where  his  regi- 
ment saved  the  fortunes  of  the  day,  though  half 
its  number  fell.  His  devotion  to  duty  and  the 
character  of  his  services  subsequently  secured  his 
promotion  as  Major,  November  3d,  1865.  After 
the  conclusion  of  hostilities  he  had  charge  of  hos- 
pitals at  Cincinnati,  Charleston,  Wafhington  and 
Richmond.  He  had  charge  of  the  post  hospital 
at  Richmond  during  the  last  eight  months  of  his 
life.  He  was  faithfully  performing  his  duties 
when,  on  July  14th,  1866,  he  was  suddenly  at- 
tacked with  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  which 
was  followed  by  a slow,  deep  fever  that  never  left 
him.  He  was  removed  to  his  home  in  Wafhing- 
ton, D.  C.,  and  expired  beneath  his  father’s  roof* 
August  8th,  1866.  A child  of  many  prayers,  he 
ever  bore  the  Bible  with  him,  and  revered  the 


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ordinances  of  religion.  Gentleman-like  in  his 
manners,  practical  in  his  cast  of  mind,  almost  in- 
tuitive in  his  judgment,  and  quick  and  accurate  in 
his  perceptions,  he  was  admirably  fitted  for  the 
profession  to  which  he  was  so  enthufiastically 
devoted.  He  is  mourned  for  as  an  only  son. 

9.  Colonel  Henry  Boyd  McKeen,  son  of  Hen- 
ry McKeen,  was  born  in  Philadelphia,  Septem- 
ber 1 8th,  1835,  and  was  graduated  at  Nassau  Hall 
in  1853.  He  was  one  of  the  most  gallant  of  those 
younger  officers  who  fell  during  General  Grant’s 
campaign  in  the  spring  and  summer  of  1864.  He 
entered  the  army,  as  Adjutant  of  the  Thirty-first 
Pennsylvania,  October  27th,  1861,  and  was  pres- 
ent in  every  engagement  of  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac, from  Williamburg,  in  1862,  until  his  death 
at  Cold  Harbor,  in  1864.  Promoted  Major  for 
gallantry  at  Fair  Oaks,  he  soon  became  Colonel  of 
his  regiment  and  commanded  the  1st  Brigade,  2d 
Division,  2d  Army  Corps,  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
He  was  wounded  *in  the  seven  davs’  ‘fight,  at 
Fredriecksburg,  and  at  Chancellorsville.  At  Cold 
Harbor  his  brigade  actually  held  their  pofition 
within  fifteen  yards  of  the  enemy’s  works,  and  so 
murderous  was  the  fire  of  these  eight  hundred  men 
that  all  the  efforts  of  the  enemy  could  not  dislodge 
them.  His  pofition  was  so  perilous  that  he  could 
not  retreat,  and  he  could  not  be  relieved  save  by  a 
“sap”  or  zigzag  trench  from  the  main  line  of 
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works  to  his.  Thus  the  men  were  at  length  res- 
cued, but  their  gallant  leader,  while  preparing  to 
refist  an  aflault,  had  fallen,  pierced  by  the  bullet  of 
a sharp fhooter.  The  three  hundred  of  Thermopylae 
perifhed,  but  the  leader  of  the  eight  hundred  of 
Cold  Harbor,  while  saving  the  lives  of  his  men, 
gave  up  his  own. 

io.  Adjutant  Samuel  Hepburn  Pollock,  the 
son  of  the  Hon.  James  Pollock,  and  grandson  of 
Samuel  Hepburn,  Esq.,  was  born  in  Milton,  North- 
umberland county,  Pa.,  October  23d,  1838.  Having 
prepared  for  College,  he  entered  Nassau  Hall,  and 
was  graduated  in  1859.  He  shortly  afterwards 
entered  the  law  office  of  his  father  and  continued 
the  prosecution  of  his  studies  until  the  breaking 
out  of  the  rebellion,  in  the  spring  of  1861,  when 
he  haftened  to  the  capital  of  his  native  State  to 
offer  his  services  in  defence  of  his  country.  A few 
months  after  he  became  the  Private  Secretary  of 
his  father,  who  had  been  appointed  Director  of  the 
United  States  Mint,  at  Philadelphia.  Here  he 
remained  in  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duties 
until  after  the  unfortunate  Peninsula  campaign, 
when  his  patriotism  impelled  him  to  offer  his 
services  a second  time.  Appointed  Adjutant  of  the 
131st  Regiment  of  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  with 
his  command  he  hastened  to  the  defence  of  Wash- 
ington after  the  disaftrous  battle  of  the  second  Bull 
Run.  His  regiment  was  incorporated  into  the 


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Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  participated  in  its  his- 
tory— noble  in  defeat  and  glorious  in  victory.  He 
was  present  at  many  of  the  most  terrible  battles  of 
the  war — at  the  victory  of  Antietam  and  the  battle 
of  Fredericksburg,  where  his  Colonel  commanded 
a brigade  and  he  directed  the  movements  of  his  re- 
giment in  that  bloody  conflict.  At  the  close  of  the 
war,  in  which  he  exhibited  conspicuous  courage, 
he  gladly  returned  to  peaceful  pursuits.  He  had 
endured  the  hardfhips  of  the  war  and  paffed  safely 
through  the  dangers  of  the  field  only  to  fall  at 
home,  by  the  hand  of  disease.  Gentle  and  loving 
in  disposition,  yet  of  great  strength  of  character 
and  firmness  of  purpose,  the  best  commentary  upon 
his  religious  principles  is  the  fact  that  he  returned 
from  the  camp  pure  in  heart  and  uncontaminated 
in  life.  He  died  at  Philadelphia,  on  the  25th  of 
October,  1865,  aged  twenty-seven  years. 

1 1.  William  Sergeant,  son  of  the  Hon.  John  Ser- 
geant and  Margaretta  (Watmough)  Sergeant,  was 
born  in  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  August  29th,  1829.  He 
was  prepared  for  College  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Craw- 
ford, principal  of  the  Grammar  School  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania.  He  entered  Princeton 
College  in  1845,  where  his  father  and  his  maternal 
grandfather  had  been  educated,  and  was  graduated 
in  the  Centennial  Class  of  Naflau  Hall  in  1847. 
He  studied  law  with  his  father,  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  1850,  elected  to  the  Legislature  of  Penn- 


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sylvania  in  1852,  and  in  1855  was  appointed  Sec- 
retary to  the  Commissioners  of  Bankruptcy.  His 
manly  integrity  and  genial  character  secured  him 
many  warm  personal  friends,  and  in  the  discharge 
of  his  duties  as  a Master  in  Chancery,  to  which 
branch  of  his  profeffion  he  chiefly  applied  himself, 
he  secured  the  confidence  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  his  native  State,  and  his  reports  won  the  highest 
encomiums  of  his  fellow-lawyers.  When  the  war 
broke  out  he  offered  his  services  to  the  Govern- 
ment, and  was  appointed  Captain  in  the  12th 
Infantry,  United  States  Army.  He  spent  some  time 
in  recruiting,  and  then  accompanied  his  regiment 
in  the  campaign  of  the  Peninsula,  in  1862,  par- 
ticipating in  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  and  especially 
in  the  battles  of  Gaines’  Mills,  June  27th,  and  Mal- 
vern Hill,  June  30th,  1862.  He  was  in  the  move- 
ment under  General  Pope  in  Virginia,  and  present 
in  General  McClellan’s  campaign  in  Maryland, 
which  culminated  at  Antietam.  One  half  of  his 
regiment  was  lost  in  these  campaigns,  and  his  ex- 
posures so  impaired  his  health  that  he  was  with- 
drawn from  active  service  in  November,  1862. 
Engaged  in  recruiting  service  for  some  time,  in 
October,  1 863,  he  was  placed  on  the  staff  of  Colonel 
Burbank,  his  Brigade  Commander,  and  served 
with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  until  December, 
1863.  After  various  services  he  was  appointed 
Colonel  of  the  210th  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  in 
September,  1864.  He  organized  his  command 


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and  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  2d  Division, 
5th  Army  Corps,  and  participated  in  the  move- 
ments in  front  of  Peterfburg,  partfcularly  in  the 
affair  of  the  “ Boydtown  Plank  Road,”  Warren’s 
raid  on  the  Weldon  Railroad,  the  second  Hatch’s 
Run,  and  the  “ Battle  of  the  White  Oak  Road,” 
March  3 1 st,  1 865,  in  which  he  was  fatally  wounded. 
He  was  sent  home,  but  died  upon  the  steamboat 
between  City  Point  and  Washington,  D.  C.,  April 
1 ith,  1865.  His  success  as  an  officer  was  marked, 
and  he  was  repeatedly  complimented  for  his  con- 
duct at  the  head  of  his  regiment,  and  for  his  sol- 
dierlike and  energetic  handling  of  his  brigade, 
which  he  repeatedly  commanded.  On  the  8th  of 
November,  1853,  married  Miss  Eliza,  daughter 
of  James  S.  Espy,  Esq.,  of  Harrisburg,  Pa.,  who, 
with  her  five  young  daughters,  survives,  to  mourn 
the  too  early  loss  of  a beloved  husband  and 
father. 

1 2.  Lieutenant  John  M.  Williams,  second  son  of 
Michael  Magie  and  Sarah  Williams,  was  born, 
June  20th,  1841,  at  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.  Pre- 
pared for  College  by  the  Rev.  David  H.  Pierson, 
he  entered  the  College  of  New  Jersey,  and  main- 
tained a very  high  standing  during  his  connection 
with  the  inftitution.  He  obeyed  the  call  of  his 
country,  and  in  company  with  several  of  his  class- 
mates, enlisted  in  the  Anderson  Cavalry,  September 
1 2th,  1862,  as  a body  guard  to  General  Rosecrans. 


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Was  in  the  fkirmish  near  Carlisle,  Pa.,  December 
30th,  1862,  and  then  proceeded  to  Tenneffee, 
where  he  was  for  a time  engaged  in  guerilla  war- 
fare. His  courage  in  battle  and  his  coolness  in  the 
hour  of  danger  soon  impreffed  his  superior  officers, 
and  he  was  appointed  a Lieutenant  and  Adjutant 
of  the  17th  Kentucky  Volunteers.  He  was  pros- 
trated by  fever,  and  yet  so  eager  was  he  to  discharge 
his  duty  that  at  the  request  of  his  Colonel  he  took 
the  oath  of  office  while  reclining  upon  his  couch. 
But  he  could  not  enter  upon  his  duties,  for  he  fell 
in  the  very  outset  of  his  career.  He  died  of  ty- 
phoid fever,  August  9th,  1863,  at  McMinnville, 
Tennessee. 


Note. — Captain  Henry  Lewis  Southard,  and  Lieutenant  Kent  Delaware 
Davis,  are  also  among  the  dead,  but  no  materials  could  be  obtained  for 
special  memoirs. 


ROLL 


OF  THE 


OF  THE 


COLLEGE  OF  NEW  JERSEY 


WHO  SERVED  IN  THE 


ARMY  OR  NAVY  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES 


IN  THE  WAR  FOR  THE  UNION. 


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BY  REQUEST  OF  THE  TRUSTEES. 


PHILADELPHIA : 

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1867. 


ROLL 


ABERT  JAMES  W.,  District  of  Columbia,  Class  of  1838.  Was 
graduated  at  West  Point  in  1842  ; appointed  Lieutenant,  U.  S. 
Topographical  Engineers,  and  engaged  in  surveys  and  recon- 
noisances  in  the  West  from  1843-46;  in  the  Mexican  War 
under  General  Kearney;  Assistant  Professor  at  West  Point 
in  1849  and  ’50  ; again  on  surveys ; and  in  the  Seminole  War 
under  General  Harney  in  1856  and  1858.  In  General  Patter- 
son’s army  in  1861,  and  on  the  staff  of  General  Keim  in  the 
battle  of  Falling  Waters ; on  the  staff  of  General  Banks  in 
1861  and  1862,  and  specially  mentioned  by  him  in  his  official 
report  of  the  battles  of  May  23d,  24th  and  25th,  1862.  In 
General  Pope’s  campaign  on  the  Rapidan,  and  in  General 
McClellan’s  advance  on  Frederick  City  and  South  Mountain. 
On  General  Gillmore’s  staff  in  South  Carolina,  in  1863  and 
1864.  Resigned  his  commission  as  Major  U.  S.  Engineers, 
June  25th,  1864. 

ABERT  S.  THAYER,  District  of  Columbia.  Served  during 
the  war  under  the  U.  S.  Corps  of  Engineers.  Was  in  the 
Shenandoah  campaign  under  General  Banks,  and  constructed 
the  bridge  by  which  the  army  crossed  into  Maryland  at  Wil- 
liamsport. Assisted  in  fortifying  Nashville  ; was  under  Gen- 
eral Meade  before  Petersburg,  and  served  until  the  close  of 
the  war. 

ADAMS  JAMES  L.,  Hospital  Steward,  and  afterwards  Assis- 
tant Surgeon,  5th  Michigan,  until  January  23d,  1863. 

IO 


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BABER  RICHARD  P.  L.,Ohio,  Class  of  1843.  Paymaster,  TJ. 
S.  A.,  September  12th,  1861. 

*BARTLETT  HENRY  C.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1841.  Cap- 
tain, 1th  N.  J.  Yols.,  August  28th,  1861 ; served  with  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac  before  Richmond,  &c. ; resigned  January  14th, 

1863.  Appointed  Captain,  33d  New  Jersey,  August  29th,  1863. 
Mortally  wounded  at  Rocky  Face  Ridge,  Georgia,  May  8th, 

1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

BARTON  W.  B.,  New  York.  Lieutenant- Colonel,  48th  N.  Y. 
Volunteers,  July  24th,  1861;  promoted  Colonel,  June  18th, 
1862.  Served  before  Charleston,  S.  C.,  in  reducing  Pulaski, 
before  Petersburg  and  Richmond.  Commanded  a brigade  in 
1864 ; mustered  out  December  3d,  1864. 

BATEMAN  ROBERT  M.,  M.D.,  New  Jersey.  Assistant  Sur- 
geon, 25th  N.  J.  Volunteers  ; term  of  service  expired  June 
20th,  1863.  Served  in  Maryland  and  Virginia.  As  Field  Sur- 
geon, participated  in  Burnside’s  attack  upon  Fredericksburg, 
Va.,  December  13th,  1863,  and  narrowly  escaped  with  his  life. 

BEAUMONT  H.  N.,  M.D.,  Pennsylvania.  Assistant  Surgeon, 
U.  S.  N.,  April  29th,  1864.  Served  in  hospital  at  Norfolk, 
Va.,  and  on  board  of  the  monitor  “ Canonicus.”  Took  part  in 
both  attacks  on  Fort  Fisher  under  Admiral  Porter,  and  then 
served  on  the  Carolina  coast  and  in  the  West  Indies,  until 
July  1st,  1865.  Subsequently  medical  officer  of  the  “ Ohio” 
and  the  u Chattanooga.” 

BELDEN  OLIVER  S.,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1853.  As- 
sistant Surgeon,  5th  New  Jersey  Vols,,  May,  1862;  served  in 
the  Peninsula  in  the  field  as  the  Surgeon  of  the  regiment,  and 
in  the  hospital  of  the  brigade.  Present  in  the  seven  days’  fight 
before  Richmond,  and  subsequently  at  Bristow  Station  and  the 
second  Bull  Run.  During  the  last  battle  he  was  a prisoner 
for  twenty- four  hours  and  then  released.  Was  in  the  battle 
of  Fredericksburg,  and  term  of  service  expired  in  Feb.,  1863. 
From  May,  1864,  until  Jan.,  1865,  was  acting  Assistant  Sur- 


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geon,  TJ.  S.  A.  in  Alexandria,  Va.,  having  charge  chiefly  of 
the  King  Street  Hospital.  Feb.Hst,  1865,  served  in  hospitals 
in  Savannah,  Ga.,  until  they  were  broken  up.  Honorably  dis- 
charged May,  1865. 

BELKNAP  WILLIAM  WORTH,  Iowa,  Class  of  1848.  Major 
of  the  15th  Iowa  Vols.,  Nov.  7th,  1861 ; promoted  Lieut.-Col., 
Aug.  20th,  1862,  and  Colonel,  April  22d,  1863;  Brigadier 
General,  TJ.  S.  Vols.,  July,  1863,  and  commanded  3d  Brigade, 
4th  Division,  17th  Corps:  Brevet  Major-General,  March  13, 
1865,  for  “gallant  and  meritorious  services  during  the  war.” 
Honorably  mustered  out,  Aug.  24th,  1865.  He  was  in  nu- 
merous battles,  the  most  important  of  which  were  those  of 
Shiloh  (where  he  was  wounded  and  had  a horse  shot  under 
him),  Corinth,  the  several  battles  at  Atlanta,  &c.  He  was  en- 
gaged in  the  sieges  of  Corinth,  Vicksburg  and  Atlanta,  and 
accompanied  Sherman  in  his  great  March  from  Atlanta  to  the 
Sea,  and  thence  to  Goldsborough,  Raleigh  and  Washing- 
ton. He  was  repeatedly  mentioned  for  his  coolness  and  cour- 
age, and  in  the  battle  of  Atlanta,  July  22d,  1863,  he  took  pris- 
oner Colonel  Lampley,  of  the  45th  Alabama,  by  pulling  him 
over  the  works  by  his  coat  collar.  General  B.’s  final  command 
was  the  4th  Division,  17th  Corps. 

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BILL  JOSEPH  HOWLAND,  M.D.,  Class  of  1855.  Assistant 
Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  April  13th,  1860.  Served  in  the  Depart- 
ment of  New  Mexico  until  May,  1862;  in  hospital  at  Fred- 
erick, Md.,  from  October  1862,  until  January,  1863;  as- 
signed to  U.  S.  Laboratory,  Astoria,  Long  Island,  January, 
1863;  Major  by  brevet,  “for  meritorious  service,”  November 
3d,  1865,  to  date  from  March  13th,  1865 ; assigned  to  U.  S. 
Laboratory,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  November  29th,  1865,  where  he 
remains.  Promoted  Surgeon,  August  29th,  1866,  to  date  from 
July  28th,  1866.  Participated  in  the  battles  of  Second  Bull 
Run,  South  Mountain,  and  Antietam. 

BLAIR  FRANK  PRESTON,  Missouri,  Class  of  1841.  Briga- 
dier-General, U.  S.  Vols.,  Major-General,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Novem- 
ber 29th,  1862 ; resigned  November  1st,  1865.  At  the  siege 


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of  Vicksburg  ; commanded  11th  Arm}?-  Corps  in  General  Sher- 
man’s March  to  the  Sea,  and  thence  to  Washington,  D.  C. 

BLAIR  DE  WITT  CLINTON,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1856. 
Served  three  months  in  22d  New  York  State  Militia,  in  1861. 

BLANEY  JAMES  VAN  ZANDT,  M.D.,  Illinois,  Class  of  1838. 
Surgeon  of  Brigade,  U.  S.  Vols.,  August  31st,  1861.  Medical 
Purveyor  at  Chicago,  Illinois,  November  23d,  1861.  Ordered 
to  Department  of  Virginia,  November  10th,  1862.  Medical 
Director  Department  of  Virginia,  September  23d,  1863.  Medi- 
cal Purveyor,  Chicago,  Illinois,  September  12th,  1864.  Mus- 
tered out,  October  1,  1865.  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Octo- 
ber 6th,  1865. 

BOYLE  J.  TILEORD,  Kentucky,  Class  of  1839.  Brigadier- 
General,  U.  S.  Vols.,  November  9th,  1862.  Resigned,  January 
26th,  1864.  Served  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee. 

BRADNER  THOMAS  SCOTT,  New  York,  Class  of  1846.  Chap- 
lain, 124th  N.  Y.  Vols.,  September  5tli,  1862;  mustered  out, 
June  3d,  1865. 

BRECKINRIDGE  MARCUS  PREVOST,  Illinois,  Class  of 
1848.  Captain  in  Subsistence  Department,  U.  S.  Vols.,  Sep- 
tember 2d,  1862.  Honorably  mustered  out  of  service,  January 
10th,  1866.  Brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel,  U.  S.  Vols. 

BROWN  HARVEY  ELLICOTT,  M.D.,  New  York,  Class  of 
1854.  Assistant  Surgeon,  1st  Excelsior,  U.  S.  Vols.,  April 
24th,  1861 ; promoted  Surgeon,  July  29th,  1861.  Served  in 
Maryland  and  in  the  Peninsula,  taking  part  in  the  battles 
before  Richmond,  the  seven  days’  tight,  &c. ; subsequently  in 
the  battle  of  Fredericksburg,  December  14th,  1862.  Assistant 
Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  April  13th,  1863.  Served  in  Department 
of  the  East  until  February,  1864  ; in  Department  of  New  Mex- 
ico until  October,  1865,  part  of  the  time  as  Medical  Director 
of  the  Department ; in  Department  of  the  East  until  October 
9th,  1866  ; at  present  in  the  Department  of  the  Gulf.  Cap- 
tain and  Major  by  brevet,  November  3d,  to  rank  from  March 


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13th,  1865,  “ for  faithful  and  meritorious  service  during  the 
war.” 

*CASEY  ISAAC  K.,  Pennsylvania,  Private  in  a Pennsylvania 
regiment ; appointed  a Lieutenant  of  Cavalry  by  Governor 
Curtin,  and  subsequently  by  President  Lincoln,  an  Aid-de- 
Camp,  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  Twice  brevetted  for  gallant 
and  meritorious  services,  he  left  the  army  in  1866,  with  the  rank 
of  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  died  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  March 
5th,  1867.  (See  Memoir.) 

COCHRAN  ANDREW  P.  LINN,  Class  of  1856.  Corporal  and 
Captain,  152d  Regiment  Ohio  National  Guard ; in  service 
May — August,  1864. 

COMBS  WILLIAM  STJTPHEN,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1861. 
Assistant  Surgeon,  38th  N.  J.  Yols.,  September  23d,  1864; 
mustered  out  June  30th,  1865. 

CONOYER  WILLIAM  ARTHUR,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of 
1859.  Acting  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the  Summer  of  1862.  As- 
sistant Surgeon,  U.  S.  Yols.,  October  6th,  1862.  Served  in 
Department  of  Washington  until  May,  1863;  promoted  Sur- 
geon May  8th,  1863.  Was  with  the  10th  Corps  in  the  van  of 
the  Army  of  the  James,  and  participated  in  numerous  battles 
North  and  South  of  the  James,  and  in  front  of  Petersburg ; 
was  at  the  battle  of  Drewry’s  Bluff,  the  explosion  of  the  Mine 
and  the  bombardment  of  Fort  Fisher,  and  entered  Richmond 
with  the  army.  Served  in  Department  of  Yirginia  and  North 
Carolina  until  August,  1865.  Accompanied  25th  Army  Corps 
to  Texas  as  Medical  Director  with  rank  of  Lieutenant- 
Colonel  ; served  in  Department  of  Texas  until  mustered  out, 
March  13th,  1866.  Brevet  Colonel  to  date  from  November 
24th,  1865. 

COOK  JEREMIAH,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1858.  1st  Lieuten- 
ant, 126th  Penna.  Yols.,  August  9th,  1862.  Participated 
with  his  regiment  in  the  battles  of  Fredericksburg  and 
Chancellorsville,  and  honorably  discharged  February  18th, 
1863. 


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COX  ROWLAND,  Illinois,  Class  of  1863.  Left  College  to  join 
the  army.  Appointed  Assistant  Adjutant  General,  U.  S.  Vols., 
with  the  rank  of  Captain,  September  19th,  1863.  In  the  cam- 
paigns under  Generals  Sherman  and  McPherson.  Resigned, 
January  6th,  1865. 

CTJMMING  RICHARD  S.  C.,  New  York,  Class  of  1854.  New 
York  7th  Regiment  under  first  call. 

DALRYMPLE  AARON  P.,  M.D.,  Class  of  1847.  Surgeon,  1st 
N.  Y.  Yolunteer  Engineer  Regiment,  September  11th,  1861 ; 
participated  in  the  capture  of  Port  Royal  and  Beaufort,  South 
Carolina;  resigned  in  the  Spring  of  1862.  Surgeon,  TJ.  S. 
Vols.,  June,  9th,  1 862.  Served  in  Department  of  the  South  until 
mustered  out  February  2d,  1866.  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel 
for  meritorious  services  during  the  war.  He  was  chief  medical 
officer,  &c.,  in  the  10th  Corps  at  Hilton  Head,  was  with  the 
wounded  of  Pocotaligo,  in  the  assaults  on  Fort  Wagner  and 
Olustee  ; had  charge  of  hospitals  and  discharged  other  duties 
successively  at  Beaufort,  S.  C.,  Savannah,  Ga.,  and.  Charleston, 
S.  C.  August  11th,  1865,  appointed  Medical  Director  of  the 
Department  of  North  Carolina,  on  the  staff  of  General  Gillmore, 
and  afterwards  of  General  Sickels. 

*DAVIS  KENT  DELAWARE,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1861. 
Second  Lieutenant  Marine  Corps,  June  1863:  Judge  Advo- 
cate at  Norfolk,  Va.,  and  died  January,  1864. 

*DAYTON  FERDINAND  V.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1854.  As- 
sistant Surgeon,  1st  N.  J.  Cavalry,  September  20th,  1861 ; 
promoted  Surgeon  2d  N.  J.  Cavalry,  July  12th,  1863.  Acted 
as  Surge  on-in- Chief,  Cavalry  Division,  16th  Army  Corps,  from 
March  31st,  to  May  17th,  1864;  and  February  11th,  1865,  was 
assigned  to  duty  as  Surgeon  in  charge  of  the  District  of 
Natchez,  Miss. ; mustered  out  October  24th,  1865.  Brevet  Lieu- 
tenant-Colonel, March  20th,  1865,  for  meritorious  service. 
(See  Memoir.) 

DE  GRAW  CHARLES  SMITH,  M.D.,  New  York,  Class  of 
1857.  Assistant  Surgeon,  8th  Regiment  N.  Y.  State  Militia, 


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April  23d,  1861.  In  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Bun  with  two 
other  surgeons,  he  u nobly  surrendered  rather  than  desert  the 
wounded.”  A prisoner  for  some  time,  he  was  at  last  ex- 
changed in  February,  1862 ; appointed  Assistant  Surgeon,  U. 
S.  A.,  to  rank  from  July  17th,  1862.  On  duty  in  General  Hospi- 
tal at  York,  Penna.,  till  January  5th,  1863  ; at  Campbell  Hos- 
pital, Washington,  D.  C.,  October  21st,  1863 ; with  the  1st 
Battalion,  13th  Infantry,  July  27th,  1864,  and  served  in  the 
campaign  and  siege  of  Vicksburg ; on  duty  at  Fort  Dodge, 
Kansas,  from  May  17th,  1866.  Brevet  Major  u for  faithful  and 
meritorious  conduct,”  November  3d,  to  date  from  March  13th, 
1865. 

DE  PUE  ABRAHAM,  Class  of  1858.  Private,  2d  N.  J.  Regi- 
ment ; served  three  months  and  was  discharged  August,  1861. 
Acting  Assistant  Paymaster,  TJ.  S.  N.,  June  1st,  1863,  and  in 
the  u Kittatinny”  assisted  in  the  destruction  of  the  pirate 
“ Tacony then  joined  the  West  Gulf  Squadron,  and  re- 
mained until  July,  1865.  Mustered  out,  December  25th,  1865. 

DICKSON  JOHN  NEWTON,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1859. 
Lieutenant  and  Captain,  6th  Penna.  Cavalry ; served  with  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac. 

DILWORTH  RICHARD  B.,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1865. 
Left  College  and  served  nine  months  in  a Pennsylvania  regi- 
ment. 


DOD  ALBERT  BALDWIN, New  Jersey,  Classof  1854.  Captain, 
15th  IJ.  S.  Infantry,  May  14th  1861  : on  recruiting  duty  and 
in  the  field  in  Kentucky,  until  the  Winter  of  1861:  from  that 
time  until  June,  1863,  mustering  officer  at  Columbus,  Ohio. 
Participated  in  the  capture  of  Morgan  in  Ohio  ; was  in  the 
campaign  from  Murfreesboro  to  Chattanooga,  with  his  regi- 
ment in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga,  and  on  the  staff  of  Major- 
General  Gordon  Granger,  in  the  battles  of  Lookout  Mountain 
and  Missionary  Ridge,  &c.  Under  Generals  Thomas  and 
Sherman.  Resigned  in  the  Summer  of  1864. 


*DOD  CHARLES  HODGE,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1862.  First 


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Lieutenant,  2d  N.  J.  Cavalry,  September  8th,  1868,  and  served 
in  the  West  until  June  19th,  1864,  when  he  resigned,  having 
been  appointed,  June  8th,  1864,  Captain  and  Assistant  Adju- 
tant-General of  Volunteers,  and  placed  upon  the  staff  of  General 
Hancock.  Hied  August  27th,  1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

HODGE  KOBEFvT  P.,  District  of  Columbia,  Class  of  1836. 
Paymaster  with  the  rank  of  Major,  June  5th,  1861;  brevet 
Lieutenant-Colonel,  March,  1865;  mustered  out,  July  20th, 
1866. 

EDWARDS  LOUIS  A.,  M.D.,  Class  of  1842.  Appointed  As- 
sistant Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  August  27th,  1846.  Served  in 
Mexico  and  the  Department  of  New  Mexico  until  August, 
1850  ; at  different  forts  until  1854,  when  he  was  assigned  to 
duty  in  Washington,  D.  C.  Promoted  Surgeon,  March  21st, 
1861.  Served  in  the  Middle  Department  and  that  of  the  East, 
during  1862,  ’63,  ’64  and  ’65.  Appointed  Colonel  by  brevet, 
June  15th,  1865,  to  date  from  March  13th,  1865.  Chief  Medical 
Officer  of  the  Bureau  of  Refugees,  Freedmen  and  Abandoned 
Lands,  August  13th,  1866,  and  also  Medical  Director  of  the 
Department  of  Washington,  November  1st,  1866. 

EGBERT  AUGUSTUS  R.,  M.  D.,  Class  of  1850.  Surgeon  of 
Brigade,  U.  S.  Volunteers,  November  5th,  1861.  Served  in  the 
Department  of  the  Pacific  until  mustered  out,  October  9tli, 
1865.  Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel,  October  6th,  1865. 

ELMER  ROBERT  W.,  New  Jersey,  Assistant  Surgeon,  23d 
New  Jersejr  Volunteers,  August  26th,  1862  ; mustered  out 
June  27th,  1863. 

EMERY  JOHN  RUNKLE,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1861.  Second 
Lieutenant,  15th  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  August  5th,  1862  ; 
discharged  for  disability  incurred  in  the  service,  February  23d, 
1863. 

FIELD  EDWARD,  Class  of  1861.  Second  Lieutenant,  First 
New  Jersey  Cavalry,  August  20th,  1861.  Second  Lieutenant, 
Fourth  United  States  Artillery,  February  19th,  1862;  pro- 


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raoted  First  Lieut.,  4th  U.  S.  Artillery,  August  11th,  1863  ; ap- 
pointed Brevet  Captain,  U.  S.  Artillery,  May  12th,  1864.  Was 
in  twenty  battles  ; served  with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  was 
in  the  seven  days’  fight ; in  the  battles  of  Fredericksburg,  Chan- 
cellorsville  and  Antietam  ; in  Sheridan’s  Raid  and  before  Rich- 
mond. He  was  specially  commended  and  received  promotion 
for  gallantr}”  at  the  battle  of  Chancellorsville.  Now  at  Fort 
Foote,  Md.,  near  Washington,  D.  C. 

*FREEMAN  JOSEPH  ADDISON,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of 
1852.  Assistant  Surgeon,  13th  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  July 
11th,  1862  ; promoted  Surgeon,  March  16th,  1864,  and  resigned 
April  26th,  1864  ; appointed  Assistant  Surgeon,  United  States 
Volunteers,  April  6th,  1864.  Served  in  the  Department  of  the 
Cumberland,  and  died  of  pneumonia  at  the  General  Hospital, 
Nashville,  Tenn.,  December  29th,  1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

FULLER  ALBERT  C.,  New  Jersey.  First  Sergeant  in  a com- 
pany from  Trenton,  during  the  raid  into  Pennsylvania,  in 

1863,  First  Lieutenant,  34th  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  October 
19th,  1863;  served  in  Tennessee  and  Kentucky;  was  Ad- 
jutant and  Provost  Marshal  of  Island  No.  10,  and  Post  Adju- 
tant of  Columbus,  Ky.  Repeatedly  prostrated  by  illness,  he 
resigned,  October  10th,  1864. 

GANSEVOORT  HENRY  L.,  New  York,  Class  of  1855.  Private, 
April  16th,  1861 ; promoted  Second  Lieutenant  Fifth  Artillery, 
United  States  Army,  May  14th,  1861  ; mustering  officer  at 
Harrisburg,  Pa.,  September,  1861  ; organized  Battery  “M.,” 
Fifth  Artillery,  in  December,  1861,  and  served  with  it  and 
Battery  “ C.,”  Third  Artillery,  through  the  Peninsular  cam- 
paign and  the  seven  days’  fight ; promoted  First  Lieutenant 
Fifth  Artillery.  Present  in  battles  of  Groveton,  Gainesville, 
second  Bull  Run,  South  Mountain  and  Antietam,  where  he 
was  wounded.  Appointed  Lieutenant-Colonel,  Thirteenth  New 
York  Cavalry, in  March,  1863  ; promoted  Colonel,  March  28tli, 

1864.  October  14th,  1864,  Colonel  Gansevoort,  with  his 
regiment,  surprised  Mosby’s  camp  and  captured  his  artillery. 
Brevetted  Brigadier-General  in  1865,  and  mustered  out  of 
service  in  August,  1865. 

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* GRIER  WILLIAM  P.,  Pennsylvania.  Assistant  Surgeon, 
United  States  Army,  July  23d,  1862.  Served  with  the  Army 
of  Virginia.  On  duty  in  Surgeon-General’s  office  from  Jan- 
uary 10th,  1863 ; in  Medical  Director’s  office,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
December  14th,  1863;  assigned  to  Department  of  Arkansas, 
October  23d,  1865.  Blown  up  on  the  steamer  Miami,  January 
28th,  1866.  (See  Memoir.) 

GUBBY  JAMES,  Class  of  1850.  Chaplain,  Third  Regiment, 
Rhode  Island  Heavy  Artillery,  October  10th,  1861 ; present  at 
the  capture  of  Forts  on  Hilton  Head  and  Bay  Island  ; resigned 
October,  1862,  and  appointed  Hospital  Chaplain,  United  States 
Army,  April  2d,  1863,  and  served  at  Hilton  Head  until  Jan- 
uary, 1865;  at  Alton,  111.,  from  May  until  July,  1865,  when 
he  was  honorably  mustered  out  of  the  service. 

GULICK  JOHN  S.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1838.  Purser,  United 
States  Navy  ; ranks  as  Captain,  February  1st,  1851. 

HAINES  AL ANSON  A.,  New  Jersey.  Chaplain,  Fifteenth 
New  Jersey  Volunteers,  August  15th,  1862.  This  Regiment 
belonged  to  the  Sixth  Corps,  and  participated  in  all  its  hard- 
ships and  severe  fighting.  He  was  present  and  often  exposed 
to  fire  in  more  than  thirty  battles,  among  which  may  be  men- 
tioned Fredericksburg,  December  13th,  1862,  and  May  3d, 
1863,  Gettysburg,  Spottsylvania  Court  House,  Cold  Harbor, 
Petersburg  and  the  last  battle  in  Virginia.  He  witnessed  the 
surrender  of  Lee’s  army,  and  was  mustered  out  July  1st,  1865. 

* HAINES  THOMAS  RYERSON,  New  Jersey,  Class  1851. 
Captain,  First  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  October  6th,  1861.  Served 
in  Virginia,  and  was  killed  at  Harrisonburg,  Va.,  June  6th, 
1862.  (See  Memoir.) 

HALL  CALDWELL  KEPPELL,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1851. 
Adjutant,  Fifth  N.  J.,  Volunteers,  August  24th,  1861  ; pro- 
moted Lieutenant-Colonel,  Fourteenth  New  Jersey  Volunteers, 
August  21th,  1862;  discharged  September  10th,  1864,  “on  ac- 
count of  physical  disability  from  wounds  received  in  action,” 
at  the  battle  of  the  Monocacy,  Md.  Brevetted  Colonel  and 


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Brigadier-General,  u for  gallant  and  meritorious  services  dur- 
ing the  war,”  in  the  Peninsular  campaign,  Meade’s  campaign 
of  1863,  and  that  of  the  Wilderness  in  1864. 

*HALL  THOMAS  MIFFLIN,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1853. 
Adjutant,  121st  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  August,  1862  ; pro- 
moted Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel  in  1864.  Served  with 
the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  participated  in  the  battles  of 
Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  and  Gettysburg.  (See  Me- 
moir.) 

HAMILTON  M.,  left  College  and  enlisted  in  the  Anderson  Cav- 
alry, September,  1862. 

HEBERTON  EDWARD  PAYSON,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1850. 
As  second  officer  of  the  U.  S.  Coast  Survey  vessel,  “ Dana,” 
he  assisted  in  rescuing  her  from  under  the  guns  of  Fort  Marion, 
St.  Augustine,  Fla.;  appointed  Assistant  Paymaster  United 
States  Navy,  November,  1861,  and  assigned  to  the  “Hetzel 
engaged  with  the  “ Richmond,”  in  James  River  ; took  part  in 
the  Burnside  expedition  to  Roanoke  Island,  and  narrowly  es- 
caped death  from  the  explosion  of  a gun,  while  he  was  acting 
as  volunteer  signal  officer,  during  the  attack ; was  engaged  in 
the  capture  of  Elizabeth,  North  Carolina.  In  the  “ Stellin”  he 
did  blockade  duty  off  Charleston,  S.  C.,  and  participated  in 
the  first  attack  on  Fort  Sumter.  On  account  of  ill  health  he 
resigned  in  May,  1864. 

HEWITT  JOHN  DUNBAR,  Class  of  1860.  Private  in  an  in- 
dependent Battery,  United  States  Volunteers,  Captain  Nevin, 
of  Lancaster,  Pa.,  July  1st,  1863.  Term  of  service  expired 
about  February  1st,  1864. 

HODGE  JOHN  LEDYARD,  Class  of  1853.  Additional  Pay- 
master United  States  Army,  with  the  rank  of  Major,  July,  1861; 
October,  1861,  made  assistant  in  the  office  of  the  Paymaster- 
General,  United  States  Army;  April,  1865,  brevefted  Colonel 
of  Volunteers,  and  in  May,  1866,  appointed  also  Chief  Pay- 
master of  the  Washington  District;  January  ltth,  1861,  Pay- 
master, United  States  Army. 


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HODGE  JOHN  B.,  New  Jersey.  Second  Lieutenant,  10th  Re- 
giment New  Jersey  Volunteers,  April  12th,  1862;  honorably 
discharged  in  consequence  of  physical  disability,  January  29th, 

1863  ; re-commissioned  March  4th,  1863,  but  obliged  to  resign 
on  account  of  ill  health,  June  25th,  1863.  Served  in  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.,  and  Suffolk,  Ya. 

HOLDEN  EDGAR,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1859.  Assist- 
ant Surgeon,  U.  S.  Navy,  September,  1861;  Surgeon  on  the 
Minnesota  in  Hampton  Roads,  and  at  the  capture  of  Norfolk ; 
on  the  W3randotte ; on  the  second  Monitor,  the  Passaic ; par- 
ticipated in  the  first  attack  on  Charleston,  S.  C.  Engaged  in 
hospital  duty  and  on  the  blockade  ; he  was  subsequently  on 
the  Sassacus  when  her  gallant  commander,  Roe,  endeavored 
to  run  down  the  iron-clad  ram  Albermarle.  For  an  account  of 
this  action  see  Harper’s  Magazine,  for  September,  1864.  In 

1864  he  directed  the  Medical  Department  of  the  James  River 
Squadron,  and  resigned  in  the  fall  of  1864.  Served  in  the 
Army  Hospital,  in  Newark,  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

*HOLDEN  HENRI,  New  Jersey.  Left  College  and  enlisted  in 
the  army,  September,  1862  ; served  nine  months.  Died  Novem- 
ber 10th,  1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

HOY  JAMES,  Jr.,  Class  of  1858.  Paymaster,  United  States 
Navy,  October  11th,  1861;  ranks  as  Lieutenant-Commander 
from  October  18th,  1864. 

HUEY  SAMUEL  BAIRD,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1863.  Cap- 
tain’s Clerk,  U.  S.  Navy,  June,  1863,  on  the  “ San  Jacinto,” 
Com.R.  Chandler,  East  Gulf  Squadron  ; July,  1863,  A id  to  Ad- 
miral Bailejq  on  blockade  duty  in  the  West  Indies  and  the  Gulf; 
February,  1864,  appointed  Acting  Assistant  Paymaster,  and 
on  the  u Yantic,”  was  on  blockade  duty,  &c.,  at  Wilmington, 
N.  C.;  was  in  both  attacks  on  Fort  Fisher,  in  the  capture  of 
Fort  Anderson,  and  Wilmington,  N.  C.,  in  charge  of  a battery, 
and  as  signal  officer.  Honorably  mentioned  and  resigned,  J an- 
uary,  1866. 


HUNT  EZRA  MUNDY,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1849.  As- 


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sistant  Surgeon,  29th  New  Jersey  Volunteers,  October,  1862; 
had  charge  of  Calvert  Street  Hospital,  Baltimore,  Md.,  during 
his  whole  term  of  service  until  March,  1863. 

*HUNT  G.  DRUMMOND,  Jr.,  Kentucky,  1st  Lieutenant,  4th 
Kentucky  Volunteers,  Spring  of  1862  ; Inspector  3dBrigade,3d 
Division,  14th  Army  Corps;  Adjutant,  3d  Kentucky  Volun- 
teers, April,  1863 ; mortally  wounded  at  Mission  Ridge,  Novem- 
bert25th,  and  died  November  29th,  1863.  (See  Memoir.) 

HUNTER  LOUIS  B.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1824.  Surgeon, 
United  States  Navy,  January  3d  1828;  promoted  April  4th, 
1831.  Ranks  as  Captain. 

JACKSON  HUNTINGTON  W.,  New  Jersey.  Left  College, 
and  was  appointed  Second  Lieutenant,  4th  New  Jersey  Volun- 
teers, September  1th,  1862;  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant, 
and  Aid-de-Camp  to  Major-General  John  Newton,  1st  Army 
Corps;  also  Aid-de-Camp  to  Major-General  0.  0.  Howard, 
Army  of  the  Tennessee  ; brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel;  served 
in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  from  the  battle  of  Antietam  until 
April,  1864;  participating  in  the  battles  of  Fredericksburg, 
Chancellorsville,  Marye’s  Hill,  Gettysburg,  Mine  Run,  &c.; 
with  General  Sherman’s  army,  from  Chattanooga  to  Jones- 
borough,  Georgia,  resulting  in  the  capture  of  Atlanta.  Parti- 
cipated in  the  battles  of  Rock}'  Face  Ridge,  Resaca,  Kennesau 
Mountain,  &c.;  wounded  at  Kennesau,  June  26th,  1863.  Re- 
commended for  promotion  for  especial  gallantry  at  Marye’s 
Hill,  Gettysburg  and  Kennesau.  Mustered  out,  October  1st, 
1864. 

JANEWAY  JOSHUA  HOWELL,  Class  of  1851.  Chaplain, 
199th  Pennsylvania  Volunteers,  December  24tli,  1864.  Served 
until  the  regiment  was  mustered  out,  June  28th,  1865. 

*JANEWAY  HUGH  H.,  New  Jersey.  First  Lieutenant,  1st 
New  Jersey  Cavalry,  August  14th,  1861;  promoted  for  gal- 
lantry, successively  to  the  grades  of  Major,  Lieutenant-Colonel 
and  Colonel.  In  different  battles  he  was  twelve  times  wounded. 


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He  fought  through  the  war,  and  was  killed  at  Amelia  Springs, 
Ya.,  April  5th,  1865. 

JENNISON  JOSEPH  FOWLER,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1852. 
Chaplain,  203d  Penna.  Volunteers. 

JEROLOMAN  JOHN,  New  Jersey.  Left  College  and  entered 
the  2d  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  as  Sergeant,  July  28th,  1863; 
promoted  Second  Lieutenant,  3d  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  May 
6th,  1864;  promoted  First  Lieutenant,  November  1st,  1864, 
and  Captain,  for  meritorious  service  on  the  battle-field,  May  3d, 
1865  ; mustered  out,  August  1st,  1865.  Served  in  the  West, 
and  W'as  wounded  at  Gruntown,  Miss.;  next  served  in  the 
Yalley  of  the  Shenandoah,  participating  in  Sheridan’s  victories 
and  in  his  grand  raid,  and  was  wounded  before  City  Point. 

KELLEY  SAMUEL  P.,  New  Jersey.  Private  in  the  New  Jersey 
militia,  July  1st,  1863;  served  six  weeks  at  the  time  of  the 
Pennsylvania  invasion;  July  14th,  1864,  private  in  the  196th 
Pennsylvania  Volunteers  ; served  in  various  places,  chiefly  on 
guard  duty.  Mustered  out,  November  16th,  1864. 

KIMBERLY  HENRY  DICKINSON,  New  York,  Class  of 
1860.  Assistant  Paymaster,  United  States  Navy. 

KNOX  JAMES  SUYDAM,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1860.  Pri- 
vate, 21st  N.  J.  Volunteers,  July,  1862,  and  took  part  in  the 
battles  of  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville.  In  the  Spring 
of  1863,  again  enlisted  in  the  United  States  Army,  and  served 
as  Hospital  Steward  for  some  time.  Again  enlisted  in  the  1st 
Battalion  District  V olunteers,  and  was  gradually  promoted  to 
Captain.  Resigned  in  1865,  just  before  the  close  of  the  war. 

LEDYARD  EDWARD  DENISON,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of 
1864.  While  a student,  enlisted  in  49th  Penna.  State  Militia, 
and  served  nearly  three  months  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  of 
Pennsylvania. 

LEWIS  VALENTINE  A.  Chaplain,  2d  Regiment  New  York 
Volunteers,  May  11th,  1861,  and  served  in  the  Peninsula. 
Resigned  in  Septemper,  1861,  on  account  of  sickness. 


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*LINDSLEY  WEBSTER,  M.D.,  District  of  Columbia,  Class 
of  1855.  Assistant  Surgeon,  United  States  Army,  May  28th, 
1861 ; on  duty  in  Washington,  D.  C.,  until  July,  1861,  when 
ordered  to  Cincinnati,  Ohio ; served  with  the  18th  United 
States  Infantry,  in  Kentucky  and  Tennessee,  from  December, 
1861,  until  April,  1863.  Subsequently  had  charge  of  hospitals 
at  Baltimore,  Md.,  York,  Pa.,  Beaufort,  S.  C.,  and  finally  at 
Washington,  D.  C.,  in  June,  1864.  Served  with  1st  Battalion, 
12th  United  States  Infantry,  at  Richmond,  Va.,  from  August, 
1865,  to  November  3d,  1865,  then  placed  in  charge  of  the  Post 
Hospital.  Major  by  brevet,  November  3d,  1865.  Died  in 
Washington,  D.  C.,  August  8th,  1866.  (See  Memoir.) 

McCAULEY  CLAY,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1864.  While  a 
student,  became  a private,  126th  Pennsylvania  Yolunteers, 
August  6th,  1862  ; promoted  Sergeant  and  Second  Lieutenant ; 
mustered  out,  May  22d,  1863.  Participated  in  the  battles  of 
South  Mountain,  Antietam,  White  Sulphur  Springs,  Ames- 
ville,  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellorsville.  In  the  last  battle 
he  w*as  stunned,  captured  and  incarcerated  in  Libby  Prison  for 
six  days,  and  after  a captivity  of  eleven  days  was  paroled. 

McCLEERY  JOHN,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1858.  Captain,  5th 
Pennsylvania  Reserves,  May,  1861;  served  in  West  Virginia, 
before  Washington,  in  the  Peninsula,  and  at  Falmouth,  Ya. 
Participated  in  the  seven  days’  fight  before  Richmond  ; in 
the  battle  of  Glendale,  in  the  thickest  of  the  fight  he  was 
wounded  in  the  thigh  and  in  the  shoulder,  and  taken  pris- 
oner ; spent  some  weeks  in  hospital,  was  then  transferred  to 
Libby  Prison,  and  finally  exchanged  in  August,  1862.  Unable 
to  join  the  army  until  October,  ill  health  compelled  him  to  re- 
sign in  December,  1862.  He  became  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  the 
28th  Provisional  Regiment  of  Pennsylvania,  and  assisted  in 
repelling  the  enemy  from  the  Cumberland  Valley,  when  they 
invaded  Pennsylvania. 

McCOY  JAMES  SHARON,  Ohio,  Class  of  1863.  Mate,  United 
States  Navy;  August  25th,  1864,  served  on  the  “tin  clad” 
“Juliet,”  and  on  the  “iron  clad”  “Louisville,”  Mississippi 
Squadron.  Resigned,  May,  1865. 


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McDOWELL  A.  WILLIAM,  M.D.,  Class  of  1837.  Surgeon,  6th 
Veteran  Volunteers,  February  23d,  1865;  served  at  Indian- 
apolis, Harrisburg  and  Washington.  Mustered  out,  April, 
1866. 

McGILL  GEORGE  M.,  M.D.,  Class  of  1858.  Assistant  Surgeon, 
United  States  Army,  April  16th,  1862  ; on  duty  in  hospitals, 
in  the  Department  of  Washington,  until  March  14th,  1863; 
with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  in  its  campaigns  until  January 
13th,  1865,  when  assigned  to  the  hospital  at  Baltimore,  Md.; 
assigned  to  the  Department  of  the  East,  July  24th,  1866. 
Major  by  brevet,  March  13th,  1865;  Lieutenant-Colonel,  by 
brevet,  September  28th,  1866,  for  services  during  the  preva- 
lence of  cholera  at  Hart’s  Island,  N.  Y. 

McGOWAN  THEODORE,  Class  of  1855.  Captain  and  Assist- 
ant Adjutant  General,  United  States  Volunteers,  July  14th, 
1862,  and  served  in  the  Peninsula.  March  3d,  1863,  placed 
on  staff  of  General  Martindale,  Military  Governor  of  Washing- 
ton, and  served  as  Judge  Advocate  until  February,  1864,  then 
as  Chief  of  Staff' and  Acting  Adjutant  General  until  December 
17th,  1864,  when  General  Augur  appointed  him  Provost  Judge 
of  Washington  and  Assistant  Judge  Advocate  of  the  Depart- 
ment. Promoted  Major  and  Lieutenant-Colonel,  by  brevet, 
March  13th,  1865.  Mustered  out,  July  1st,  1866. 

*McKEEN  HENRY  B.,  Class  of  1853.  Adjutant,  81st  Pennsyl- 
vania Volunteers,  October  27th,  1861  ; promoted  Major  for 
gallantry  at  Fair  Oaks,  June  1st,  1862  ; Lieutenant-Colonel, 
July  1st,  and  made  Colonel,  November  24th,  1862;  wounded 
in  the  seven  days’  fight,  at  Fredericksburg  and  at  Chancellors- 
ville;  killed  at  Cold  Harbor,  June  3d,  1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

MARCELLUS  ALGERNON,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1863.  Left 
College  and  enlisted  in  the  59th  Regiment,  N.  Y.  Vols. ; with 
the  2d  Corps  passed  through  the  campaigns  and  battles  of 
Fredericksburg,  Chancellorsville,  Gettysburg  and  Mine  Run. 
Appointed  2d  Lieutenant,  U.  S.  Colored  Troops,  December 
29th,  1863,  and  served  in  New  Orleans  and  Pensacola.  As 
staff  officer  served  in  various  capacities,  and  in  April  1865,  was 


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promoted  Adjutant  of  the  25th  U.  S.  Colored  Troops.  Mus- 
tered out,  December  14th,  1865. 

MATHER  DE  WITT  CLINTON,  New  York,  Class  of  1852. 
N.  Y.  Yth  Regiment  under  the  first  call. 

MATHER  THOMAS  D.,  New  York,  Class  of  1853.  N.  Y.  Tth 
Regiment  under  the  first  call. 

MEHAFFEY  CAL  YIN  D.,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1853.  Second 
Lieutenant,  1st  U.  S.  Infantry,  August  5th,  1861 ; promoted 
1st  Lieutenant,  October  24th,  1861 ; promoted  Captain,  No- 
vember 26th,  1864. 

MILLER  ELIHU  SPENCER,  Class  of  1836.  Commanded  a 
Battery  from  Philadelphia  during  the  invasion  of  Penna. 

MILLER  JONATHAN  DICKINSON,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class 
of  1829.  Surgeon  U.  S.  N ; appointed  December  5th,  1836, 
promoted  April  20th,  1841.  Ranks  as  captain. 

MOFFAT  EDWARD,  New  Jersey.  Left  College  and  enlisted 
as  a private  in  the  9th  N.  J.  Yols.  Appointed  1st  Sergeant, 
promoted  2d  Lieutenant,  March  9th,  1862, but  declined:  again 
appointed,  May  16th,  1862;  detached  and  appointed  2d  Lieu- 
tenant Signal  Corps,  U.  S.  A.,  March  3d,  1863.  Brevetted  1st 
Lieutenant,  and  then  Captain,  and  mustered  out  August  11th, 
1865.  Served  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac,  and  in  the  Burn- 
side Expedition ; participated  in  the  capture  of  Roanoke  Is- 
land ; was  in  General  Foster’s  Goldsboro  expedition,  and  took 
part  in  its  decisive  battles ; was  in  General  Hunter’s  Expedi- 
tion against  Charleston,  S.  C.  He  was  in  more  than  a dozen 
battles  in  North  Carolina.  Had  charge  of  signal  outposts,  espe- 
cially at  Bachelor’s  Creek,  N.  C.,  where  February  1st,  1864, 500 
Union  Soldiers  resisted  General  Pickett  with  1000  men  and 
several  batteries  of  artillery  for  nine  hours,  and  thus  saved 
Newbern.  Lieutenant  M.  unwittingly  rode  into  a regiment  of 
rebels,  but  preferring  death  to  the  horrors  of  Andersonville,  he 
turned,  and  amid  a shower  of  bullets,  he  escaped.  He  was  offi- 
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cially  thanked  for  his  gallantry  in  this  battle.  May  26th,  1864, 
his  signal  station  was  accidentally  blown  np,  and  eighty  persons 
killed.  September  10th,  1864,  he  was  appointed  Acting  Chief 
Signal  Officer  of  North  Carolina,  and  while  at  Newbern  was 
attacked  by  the  yellow  fever.  February,  1865,  he  was  stationed 
as  Signal  Officer  at  General  Meade’s  Head  Quarters,  before 
Petersburg,  Ya.  He  was  actively  employed  during  Lee’s  attack 
on  Fort  Steadman,  in  the  Hatcher  Run  fight,  the  capture  of 
Petersburg,  in  the  line  of  battle,  April  6th,  and  present  at  the 
closing  fight  and  at  the  surrender. 

MOORE  DAYID  W.,  Class  of  1858.  Chaplain,  97th  Penna. 
Vols.,  June  7th,  1864.  Served  with  the  regiment  before  Pe- 
tersburg, Ya.,  under  Generals  Meade  and  Butler.  Resigned 
November  24th,  1864. 

MOORE  AMBROSE  Y.,  Class  of  1846.  Chaplain. 

*NEFF  ALDUS  J.,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1850.  Captain, 
37th  Penna.  Reserves.  Died  August  4th,  1862. 

OAKLEY  LEWIS  WILLIAM,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1849. 
Assistant  Surgeon,  2d  N.  J.  Yols.,  May  27th,  1861 ; promoted 
Surgeon,  October  12th,  1861.  Brigade  Surgeon  under  Gen- 
erals Kearney  and  Taylor ; and  Surgeon-in  chief  of  the  Brigade 
under  General  Torbert,  until  mustered  out,  June  24th,  1864. 
Served  with  the  Arm}^  of  the  Potomac. 

OTIS  GEORGE  ALEXANDER,  M.D., Class  of  1849.  Surgeon, 
27th  Mass.  Yols.,  September  14th,  1861 ; Assistant  Surgeon  U. 
S.  Yols.,  June  30th,  1864,  and  Surgeon,  August  30tli,  1864  ; 
Lieutenant-Colonel  by  brevet,  March  13th,  1865.  Assistant 
Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  February  28th,  1866  ; Captain  by  brevet, 
September  28th,  1866 ; Major  by  brevet,  September  28th, 
1866.  Was  in  Burnside’s  Expedition  to  North  Carolina,  and 
participated  in  its  engagements.  Served  in  the  Departments 
of  the  South  and  of  Yirginia  for  nearly  three  3'ears.  J uly  1 st, 
1864,  in  the  Surgeon  General’s  Office  on  duty  in  connection 
with  the  Surgical  Records  of  the  War  of  the  Rebellion,  and  as 
Curator  of  the  Army  Medical  Museum. 


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OYERTON  EDWARD,  Jr.,  Class  of  1856.  Major  and  Lieu- 
tenant Colonel,  50th  Penna.  Yols.;  served  with  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac ; wounded  at  Antietam ; mustered  out,  Septem- 
ber 30th,  1864. 

PAIGE  JAMES  ALEXANDER,  Class  of  1849.  Hospital 
Chaplain,  U.  S.  A.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  June  4th,  1862.  Hon- 
orably discharged,  December,  1865. 

PENNINGTON  SAMUEL  HAYES,  Jr.,  Class  of  1862.  Yol- 
unteered  as  private  in  Second  Battalion  N.  J.  Militia,  on  inva- 
sion of  Pennsylvania  ; entered  the  volunteer  service  as  Second 
Lieutenant  and  mustering  officer,  August  22d,  1863  ; commis- 
sioned First  Lieutenant  35th  N.  J.  Yols.,  September  15th, 
1863  ; Captain,  November  15th,  1864 : mustered  out  August  1st, 
1865.  Took  part  in  the  expedition  from  Yicksburg  to  Meri- 
dian, Miss.,  in  the  campaign  against  Atlanta,  in  the  pursuit 
of  Hood,  and  finally  in  Sherman’s  March  to  the  Sea,  and  the 
closing  campaign  in  the  Carolinas.  Was  frequently  detailed 
for  special  service  as  Commandant  of  Pioneers,  Acting  Judge 
Advocate,  &c. 

PHELPS  CHARLES  EDWARD,  Maryland,  Class  of  1852. 
Officer,  Ith  Maryland  Yolunteers,  September,  1862,  promoted 
Colonel;  resigned,  September  9th,  1864. 

PHILLIPS  WILLIAM  W.  L.,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1848. 
Surgeon  1st  N.  J.  Cavalry,  August  16th,  1861;  Surgeon  of 
Bayard’s  Cavalry  Brigade,  October,  1862,  and  Division  Sur- 
geon of  Bayard’s  Cavalry  Division,  November,  1862  ; on  staff 
of  General  D.  M.  Gregg,  December  13th,  1862.  Term  of  ser- 
vice expired,  September  1st,  1864. 

PIERCE  SAMUEL  EYERETT,  Class  of  1850.  Chaplain  of  a 
New  York  Regiment,  State  Militia,  under  the  first  call. 

*POLLOCK  SAMUEL  HEPBURN,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of 
1859.  Adjutant,  131st  Penna.  Yols.,  1862-65.  (See  Memoir.) 


POTTER  ROBERT  B.,  New  Jersey.  Second  Lieutenant,  24th 


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N.  J.  Y ols. ; served  with  his  regiment  until  its  muster  out, 
June  29th,  1863. 

POTTER  WILLIAM  E.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1863.  Left  College 
and  enlisted  as  a private,  12th  N.  J.  Vols.,  July  28th,  1862; 
commissioned  2d  Lieutenant,  August  14th,  1862  ; mustered  into 
service  for  three  years,  September  4th,  1862.  Served  in  Mary- 
land and  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  as  Ordinance  Officer  of 
the  3d  Division,  2d  Corps,  until  October,  1863  Promoted  1st 
Lieutenant,  August  4th,  1863,  and  appointed  Judge  Advocate 
of  the  Division  October  1st,  1863.  Promoted  Captain  Febru- 
ary 4th,  1864.  In  the  campaign  beginning  May  4th,  1864,  he 
was  wounded  at  the  Battle  of  the  Wilderness,  May  6th,  1864. 
Returned  to  duty  in  June,  1864,  and  was  present  in  all  the 
battles  of  the  campaign.  August  1st,  1864,  Judge  Advocate 
of  2d  Division,  2d  Corps,  and  on  the  staff  of  General  Gibbon  ; 
January  15th,  1865,  Aid-de-Camp  to  General  Gibbon  and 
Judge  Advocate  of  the  24th  Corps,  Armjr  of  the  James.  Was 
in  all  the  actions  of  the  final  campaign,  and  present  at  the 
surrender,  Appomattox  C.  H.,  April  9th,  1865.  He  was  one 
of  the  six  officers  detailed  to  deliver  the  colors  of  Lee’s  Army 
to  the  Secretary  of  War.  Brevet  Major  of  Yolunteers,  May 
1st,  1865,  and  mustered  out,  June  3d,  1865. 

RAWN  CHARLES  C.,  Jr.,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1861.  2d 
Lieutenant,  1th  IJ.  S.  Infantry,  August  5th,  1861 ; promoted 
1st  Lieutenant  July  9th,  1862  ; promoted  Captain,  1th  U.  S. 
Infantry,  November  4th,  1863. 

REEDER  FRANK,  Pennsylvania.  Left  College  and  enlist- 
ed in  the  5th  Penna.  Yolunteers,  August,  1862;  Adjutant 
114th  Penna.  Yolunteers,  November  19th,  1862;  Captain 
19th  Penna.  Cavalry,  October  19th,  1863,  and  Lieutenant 
Colonel  of  his  regiment,  January  26th,  1865,  which  he  com- 
manded during  the  last  year  and  a half  of  its  service ; mus- 
tered out,  May  18th,  and  finally  discharged,  June  4th,  1866. 
Served  under  General  Corcoran  at  Black  Water  Creek  and 
Suffolk,  Ya.,  was  in  General  Foster’s  Expedition  from  Beau- 
fort, N.  C. ; served  under  Generals  Hunter  and  Gillmore. 


While  in  the  Cavalry,  he  took  part  in  several  expeditions  and 
raids  and  battles  in  Tennessee,  Alabama,  Mississippi,  Arkan- 
sas and  Louisiana,  under  Generals  Smith,  Grierson,  Sturgis, 
Slocum,  Mower  and  Canby.  He  was  engaged  in  thirty  skirm- 
ishes and  nearly  thirty  battles,  among  which  may  be  mentioned 
those  at  Bolivar,  Tenn.,  Black  River,  Port  Gibson  and  Grand 
Gulf,  Miss.,  and  the  battles  before  Nashville  under  General 
Thomas,  all  in  1864.  He  was  repeatedly  wounded,  had 
three  horses  shot  under  him  at  the  battles  of  Nashville,  took 
a stand  of  colors  and  Lieutenant  Colonel  Pennington  of  4th 
Louisiana  Yols.,  in  a hand  to  hand  conflict  in  front  of  Nash- 
ville, December  11th,  1864,  for  which  he  was  mentioned  in  the 
official  report,  and  recommended  for  a brevet  and  a medal  of 
honor. 

REEDER  HOWARD  JAMES,  Pennsylvania.  Left  College 
and  entered  the  XJ.  S.  A.,  October,  1861.  Resigned,  but  re- 
entered the  army  in  October,  1862.  Captain,  153d  Pa.  Yols.; 
mustered  out,  July  25th,  1863. 

RINKER  HENRY,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1841.  Private  in  a 
New  York  Regiment  of  Yolunteers. 

ROBESON  WILLIAM  P.,  New  Jersey.  First  Lieutenant,  3d 
N.  J.  Yols.,  May  28th,  1861  ; promoted  Captain  August  13th, 
1862  ; promoted  Major,  3d  N.  J.  Cavalry,  December  28th,  1863  ; 
promoted  Lieutenant-Colonel  November  23d,  1864 ; mustered 
out  with  his  regiment,  August  1st,  1865.  Brevetted  Colonel 
and  Brigadier-General  “for  gallant  services  during  the  war.” 

ROE  JOSEPH  B.,  M.D.,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1858.  Assistant 
Surgeon  of  Yolunteers,  1862;  served  until  November,  1865, in 
hospital  and  other  duty. 

SCHANCK  PETER  Y.,  M.D.  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S.  A., 
May  28th,  1861  ; on  duty  at  St.  Louis  from  September  30th, 
1862,  until  November,  1864  ; in  Department  of  Missouri  until 
May  1st,  1865  ; at  Washington  until  July  15th,  1865  ; in  Texas 
from  September  27th,  1865,  until  September  27th,  1866.  Re- 
signed, January  1st,  1867. 


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*SERGEANT  WILLIAM,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  184L  Cap- 
tain, 12th  Infantry,  TJ.  S.  A. ; Colonel,  210th  Pa.  Yols.  Served 
with  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Fatally  wounded  March  31st, 
1865,  and  died  April  11th,  1865.  (See  Memoir.) 

SHELL  ABARGER  JOSEPH  L.,  Illinois,  Class  of  1858.  Pri- 
vate, 116th  111.  Yols.,  August  1862;  promoted  2d  Lieutenant 
June  1863  ; promoted  1st  Lieutenant;  detailed  into  the  signal 
corps,  U.  S.  A.,  February,  1864,  and  served  in  it  to  the  close 
of  the  war.  Mustered  out,  June  29th,  1865.  Was  in  the  as- 
saults upon  and  the  siege  of  Yicksburg,  the  capture  of  Jack- 
son,  Miss.  Took  part  in  the  several  expeditions  with  the  army 
of  the  Tennessee,  was  in  Sherman’s  Atlanta  Campaign,  his 
March  to  the  Sea,  and  thence  to  Washington. 

SIMONSON  GEORGE  LE  FEYRE,  New  York,  Class  of  18  65. 
While  a student  he  enlisted  in  a New  York  Regiment,  State 
Militia,  at  the  time  of  the  invasion  of  Pennsylvania,  and  served 
about  three  months. 

SIMPSON  JOSIAS,  M.D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1833.  Assistant 
Surgeon,  U.  S.  A.,  Juty  11th,  183T  : served  in  the  Florida  War  ; 
in  the  War  with  Mexico,  at  the  siege  of  Yera  Cruz,  the  battles 
of  Cerro  Gordo  and  Churubusco.  Promoted  Surgeon,  August 
11th,  1855  ; Medical  Director,  Department  of  the  Pacific,  1858. 
Medical  Director  of  the  Middle  Department,  Baltimore,  Md., 
from  December,  1861,  until  September  29th,  1866,  when  as- 
signed as  Medical  Director  of  the  department  of  Tennessee. 
Brevet  Lieutenant-Colonel  and  Colonel,  March  13th,  1865, 
44  for  faithful  and  meritorious  services  during  the  war.” 

SMITH  JAMES  PASCAL,  M.D.,  New  York,  Class  of  1855. 
Surgeon  69th  N.  Y.  State  Militia  and  Yolunteers.  In  the  three 
months’  service  and  again,  September  20th,  1861,  until  Janu- 
ary, 1863. 

SMITH  LOUIS  HENRY,  New  Jersey.  Second  Lieutenant, 
2d  N.  J.  Cavalry,  August  16th,  1863.  Was  for  many  months 
a prisoner  in  different  prisons  in  the  South. 


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♦SOUTHARD  HENRY  LEWIS,  New  York,  Class  of  1836. 
Captain,  1st  N.  Y.  Yol.  Engineers.  Died  June  3d,  1864,  from 
wounds  received  at  Bermuda  Hundred. 

STANFIELD  E.  P.,  Indiana.  Left  College  and  became  Adju- 
tant, 43d  Indiana  Yols.  Served  from  November  18th,  1861, 
until  December  20th,  1864. 

STEWART  CHARLES  S.,  New  Jerse}^,  Class  of  1820.  Chap- 
lain, November  1st,  1828. 

STEWART  JOHN,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1857.  First  Lieu- 
tenant, 126th  Penna.  Yols.,  August  6th,  1862;  appointed  Ad- 
jutant, August  12th,  1862;  Assistant  Commissary  of  Musters, 
3d  Division,  5th  Corps,  January,  1863;  honorably  discharged, 
July  30th,  1863.  Participated  in  battles  of  Fredericksburg, 
December,  1862,  and  Chancellorsville,  May,  1863. 

STOCKTON  SAMUEL  W.,  New  Jersey.  Second  Lieutenant, 
4th  U.  S.  Cavalry,  May  4th,  1861 ; promoted  First  Lieutenant 
May  24th,  1861,  and  Captain  March  14th,  1865.  Appointed 
Captain  of  Yolunteers,  and  Aid-de-Camp  on  staff  of  General 
D.  Hunter.  Brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel  March  13th,  1865. 
Resigned. 

STRATTON  MORRIS  HANCOCK,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1858. 
Captain,  2d  N.  J.  Cavalry,  August  28th,  1863  ; resigned,  August 
23d,  1864. 

*STRONG  RICHARD  MARYIN,  New  York,  Class  of  1854. 
First  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant,  177th  N.  Y.  Yols.,  Novem- 
ber, 1862.  Served  in  the  South-West,  and  died  at  Assump- 
tion, La.,  May  12th,  1863.  (See  Memoir.) 

STRYKER  WILLIAM  SCUDDER,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1858  , 
Private  in  New  Jersey  troops,  three  months’  service.  Officer 
in  organizing  14th  N.  J.  Yols.,  July  11th,  1862.  Paymaster 
U.  S.  A.,  February  19th,  1863,  and  ordered  to  Hilton  Head. 
Major  and  Aid-de-Camp  to  General  Gillmore.  Participated  in 


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capture  of  Morris  Island,  night  attack  on  Fort  Wagner,  and 
bombardment  of  Forts  Wagner  and  Sumter.  Transferred 
North  to  save  life,  and  placed  in  charge  of  Pay  Department  at 
Parole  Camp,  Columbus,  Ohio.  Brevetted  Lieutenant-Colonel 
“ for  meritorious  services  during  the  war.”  Resigned,  June  30th, 
1866.  He  was  appointed  Adjutant  General  of  New  Jersey,  April 
12th,  1867. 

*STUDDIFORD  JOSIAS  SIMPSON,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1858. 
Adjutant,  4th  N.  J.  Yols.,  August  17th,  1851.  Served  with  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac.  He  was  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle 
of  Gaines’  Mill,  June  27th,  1862,  and  subsequently  exchanged. 
Killed  at  Crampton  Pass,  Md.,  September  14th,  1862.  (See 
Memoir.) 

TAYLOR  JOHN  WINTHROP,  M.  D.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of 
1835.  Surgeon,  IT.  S.  N.;  appointed  March  7th,  1838  ; promoted 
May  1st,  1852.  Ranks  as  Commander. 

TAYLOR  S.  B.,  New  Jersey.  Left  College  and  enlisted  in  the 
197th  Penna.  Yols.,  stationed  at  Rock  Island,  111. 

THOMSON  McLEOD,  Pennsylvania.  Left  College  and  en- 
tered the  Anderson  Cavalry,  September  12th,  1862.  Served  in 
the  West. 

*TOLLES  CORNELIUS  W.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1848.  As- 
sistant Adjutant  General  of  the  New  Jersey  Brigade,  three 
months’ troops,  July  3d,  1861 ; appointed  First  Lieutenant, 
13th  U.  S.  Infantry,  dating  from  May  14th,  1861;  promoted 
Captain ; appointed  Lieutenant  Colonel  and  Quartermaster,  by 
act  of  July  17th,  1862.  Died  of  wound  received  in  action  at 
Winchester,  Ya.,  November  8th,  1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

TOWNLEY  JONATHAN,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1858.  Second 
Lieutenant,  9th  New  Jersey  Yolunteers,  November  13th,  1861. 
Was  in  the  “ Burnside  Expedition took  part  in  the  capture 
of  Roanoke  Island,  and  was  wounded  at  Newbern,  N.  C.,  May 
14th,  1862.  Promoted  First  Lieutenant,  May  16th,  1862,  and 


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Captain,  March  11th,  1864.  Wounded  at  Drury’s  Bluff,  V a., 
May  16th,  1864,  and  mustered  out,  February  4th,  1865. 

TAN  CLEYE  HORATIO  P.,  Minnesota.  Colonel  of  the  2d 
Minn.  Yols.,  July  22d,  1861 ; with  General  Thomas  in  his 
Kentucky  campaign  of  1861-62,  and  took  part  in  the  battle  of 
Mill  Spring,  for  which  he  was  promoted  Brigadier-General. 
Was  at  the  siege  of  Corinth  ; commanded  a division  under  Gen- 
eral Buel  and  General  Rosecrans,  and  was  wounded  in  the  battle 
of  Stone  River,  December  31st,  1862.  Besides  minor  engage- 
ments he  was  in  the  battle  of  Chickamauga.  Mustered  out  of 
service,  August,  1 865. 

VAN  DUYN  JOHN,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1862.  Hospital  at- 
tendant, August,  1862,  David’s  Island,  N.  Y.;  Medical  Cadet, 
February  2d,  1864,  Louisville,  Ky.;  A.  A.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  Army, 
March,  1864  ; Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S.  Yolunteers,  May  15th, 

1864,  and  served  at  Pittsburgh  and  Chambersburg,  Pa.  Mus- 
tered out,  November  1st,  1865.  Brevet  Captain,  October  1st, 

1865,  u for  faithful  and  meritorious  service.” 

YAN  DDYN  STEPHEN  WYNKOOP,  New  Jersey,  Class  of 
1857.  Acting  Medical  Cadet,  U.  S.  Army,  September,  1862; 
in  1863,  A.  A.  Surgeon,  U.  S.  Army;  on  service  at  the  U.  S. 
General  Hospital,  David’s  Island ; March,  1865,  Assistant  Sur- 
geon, 1st  New  Jersey  Cavalry,  and  served  in  Yirginia.  Mus- 
tered out,  August,  1865. 

YAN  DUYN  WILLIAM.  Hospital  Attendant,  August,  1862; 
Medical  Cadet,  U.  S.  Army,  February  2d,  1864  ; Assistant  Sur- 
geon, U.  S.  Yolunteers,  May  15th,  1864.  Besides  other  service, 
had  charge  of  hospitals  at  Pittsburgh,  Pa.,  and  Chambersburg, 
Pa.  Brevetted  Captain,  U.  S.  Yolunteers,  October  1st,  1865, 
“ for  faithful  and  meritorious  service.”  Mustered  out  Novem- 
ber 1st,  1865. 

VAN  DYKE  HENRY  L.  R.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1858. 
Served  three  months  in  the  2 2d  N.  Y.  State  Militia,  under  the 
first  call. 

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VAN  RENSSELAER  CORTLANDT,  Jr.,  New  Jersey,  Class 
of  1858.  First  Lieutenant,  18th  U.  S.  Infantry,  May  14th, 
1861 ; promoted  Captain,  June  18th,  1862,  on  the  staff  of 
General  Sherman,  and  died  at  Nashville,  Tenn.,  October  1th, 

1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

VAN  RENSSELAER  PHILIP  LIVINGSTON,  New  Jersey, 
Class  of  1860.  Second  Lieutenant,  2d  N.  J.  Cavalry,  July  8th, 
1863  ; promoted  Captain,  September  8th,  1863,  and  Major,  Octo- 
ber 8th,  1864.  Was  in  several  expeditions  under  General  A.  J. 
Smith  and  General  Grierson,  and  in  the  siege  of  Mobile.  Was 
on  General  Canby’s  staff  for  a time.  Resigned,  June  28th, 

1865. 

WALL  EDWARD  BARRY,  New  York,  Class  of  1848.  Chap- 
lain, 3d  N.  Y.  Cavalry,  June  8th,  1863,  and  served  in  the  Army 
of  the  James  and  the  Army  of  the  Potomac.  Honorably  dis- 
charged, October  12th,  1864. 

WARREN  LUCIUS  HENRY,  Massachusetts,  Class  of  1860. 
Private,  32d  Massachusetts  Volunteers,  July  24th,  1862;  pro- 
moted Second  Lieutenant,  July  31st,  1862;  promoted  First 
Lieutenant  for  gallantry  at  Fredericksburg,  Va.;  appointed 
Major,  38th  U.  S.  Colored  Infantry,  March  24th,  1864.  While 
in  the  3 2d  Massachusetts  he  took  part  in  thirteen  battles, 
among  which  were,  Second  Bull  Run,  Chantilly,  Antietam, 
Fredericksburg,  Chancellor sville  and  Gettysburg.  Wounded  at 
Chancellorsville,  and  three-fourths  of  his  company  were  killed 
and  wounded  at  Gettysburg.  He  was  Judge  Advocate  of  1st  Di- 
vision, 5th  Corps.  Commanded  the  38th  U.  S.  C.  I.  before  Peters- 
burg and  Richmond,  and  was  in  numerous  engagements.  It 
was  in  the  mine  explosion,  and  at  New  Market  Heights  more 
than  one-half  of  the  officers  and  men  were  killed  and  wounded. 
In  June,  1865,  the  regiment  was  ordered  to  Texas,  and  he  was 
promoted  Lieutenant-Colonel,  and  then  Colonel,  March  13th, 
1865.  Commanded  a brigade,  brevetted  Brigadier- General, 
December,  1866,  and  was  mustered  out  in  the  Spring  of  1861. 


WEYER  EDWARD  PAYSON,  Indiana,  Class  of  1858.  First 


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Sergeant,  67th  Indiana  Volunteers,  August,  1861;  engaged  in 
the  Western  and  Southern  campaigns ; promoted  Captain ; 
was  in  the  second  attack  on  Vicksburg ; in  the  battle  of  Ar- 
kansas Post,  &c.  Mustered  out,  July,  1865. 

WILLING  EDWARD  LIVINGSTON,  M.D.,  New  Jersey, 
Class  of  1857.  Assistant  Surgeon,  3d  New  Jersey  Volunteers, 
June  25th,  1861;  promoted  Surgeon,  11th  N.  J.  Volunteers, 
July  19th,  1862  ; Januarj^,  1863,  appointed  Surgeon  in  charge 
of  the  Division  Hospital,  2d  Division,  3d  Corps,  near  Frede- 
ricksburg, Va.;  Medical  Director  of  all  the  hospitals  in  the  3d 
Corps,  April  1st,  1863  ; January,  1864,  Surgeon  in  charge  of 
the  2d  Division,  3d  Corps ; had  charge  of  the  “ Division  Fly- 
ing Hospital,’ ’ in  Grant’s  march,  and  during  the  Summer  of 
1864,  &c  ; again  had  charge  of  the  Division  Hospital,  3d  Di- 
vision, 2d  Corps,  and  was  Surgeon-in-Chief  of  the  3d  Brigade. 
Mustered  out,  July,  1865.  He  was  with  the  Army  of  the  Poto- 
mac from  the  first  battle  of  Bull  Run  to  the  surrender  of  Lee 
at  Appomattox  Court  House.  Besides  other  engagements,  he 
participated  in  the  seven  days’  battles ; in  that  of  Fredericks- 
burg, December,  1862;  in  that  of  Gettysburg,  and  in  all  the 
battles  of  Grant’s  campaign,  from  the  Rapidan  to  the  James, 
and  to  Petersburg. 

* WILLIAMS  J.  M.,  New  Jersey,  left  College  and  entered  the  An- 
derson Cavalry,  September  12th,  1862;  Lieutenant  and  Ad- 
jutant, 17th  Kentucky  Volunteers.  Served  in  the  West,  and 
died  August  9th,  1863.  (See  Memoir.) 

WILLIAMS  LEWIS  J.,  M.D.,  Maryland,  Class  of  1838.  Sur- 
geon, U.  S.  Navy;  appointed  January  25th,  1842;  promoted 
September  11th,  1856  ; rank  of  Commander. 

WINEBRENER  JOHN  A.,  Pennsylvania,  Class  of  1861.  Second 
Lieutenant,  3d  U.  S.  Infantry,  14th  November,  1863;  trans- 
ferred as  Second  Lieutenant,  Ordnance  Department,  same 
date;  First  Lieutenant,  Ordnance,  December  1st,  1865. 


WOOD  FRANCIS  G.,  New  York,  Class  of  1858.  Secretary  to 


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Com.  Wm.  Mervine,  May,  1861;  in  the  Gulf  Blockading 
Squadron,  until  October,  1861. 

WOOD  WILLIAM  JACKSON,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1856. 
Major  of  Cavalry  and  Paymaster  U.  S.  A.,  February  25th, 
1862;  on  the  staff  successively  of  Generals  Hunter,  Foster, 
Gillmore  and  Hatch  in  the  Department  of  the  South  ; volunteer 
aid  to  General  Gillmore  during  the  siege  and  capture  of  Morris 
Island.  Resigned  and  honorably  discharged,  August  12th, 

1864. 

WOODHULL  ADDISON  WADDELL,  M.D., New  Jersey,  Class 
of  1854.  Assistant  Surgeon,  5th  N.  J.  Volunteers,  August  23d, 
1861 ; promoted  Surgeon,  9th  N.  J.  Volunteers,  February  6th, 
1862;  mustered  out  February  1th,  1865.  Served  in  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac,  and  in  North  Carolina  and  South  Carolina,  in 
the  hospital,  and  in  Newbern  and  Beaufort,  and  as  Surgeon 
of  General  Hickman’s  Star  Brigade,  both  in  Virginia  and  the 
Carolinas.  In  one  engagement  he  had  his  horse  shot  under 
him,  and  was  wounded. 

WOODHULL  ALFRED  ALEXANDER,  M.D.,  New  Jersey, 
Class  of  1856.  Assistant  Surgeon,  U.  S.  Army,  September  19th, 
1861 ; served  in  Washington,  and  in  the  field,  with  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac,  until  November,  1862;  in  the  office  of  the 
Medical  Director  of  Middle  Department,  from  December,  1862, 
to  October,  1863  ; Medical  Department  of  Virginia  and  North 
Carolina,  from  November,  1863,  to  May,  1864;  with  the  Army 
of  the  James  until  May,  1865  ; preparing  catalogue  of  the  Army 
Medical  Museum,  since  June,  1865;  Captain  by  brevet,  and 
Major  by  brevet,  June  15th,  1865,  to  date  from  March  13th, 

1865,  “for  faithful  and  meritorious  service  during  the  war.” 
Participated  in  the  siege  of  Yorktown,  the  battles  of  Gaines’ 
Mills,  Malvern  Hill,  second  Bull  Run,  Antietam  and  others ; 
present  at  Petersburg,  April  2d,  and  Appomattox  C.  H.,  April 
9th,  1865.  Lieutenant-Colonel  by  brevet. 

WOODRUFF  ISRAEL  C.,  New  Jersey.  Graduate  of  West 
Point.  Brevet  2d  Lieutenant,  3d  Artillery,  U,  S.  A.,  July  1st, 


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1836  ; 1st  Lieutenant  U.  S.  Corps  of  Engineers  ; promoted  Cap- 
tain ; promoted  Major  August  6th,  1861;  promoted  Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel August  15th,  1864.  Brevetted  Colonel  and  Briga- 
dier-General “ for  meritorious  services  during  the  war,”  March 
13th,  1865.  Assistant  Professor  at  West  Point,  1836-38  ; in 
Lake  Surveys,  1838-1846 ; on  Light  House  Board,  1846-48  ; on 
the  Plains  and  constructing  military  roads,  1848-53;  engineer 
of  Light  Houses  on  the  Lakes,  1853-57  ; since  1857  in  Engineer 
Bureau  at  Washington,  where  he  is  now  the  senior  assistant. 

*WOOLSEY  HENRY  HARRISON,  New  Jersey,  Class  of 
1856.  Lieutenant  5th  N.  J.  Vols.,  1861 ; Captain,  May,  1862  ; 
served  chiefly  in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac  ; killed  before  Peters- 
burg, Va.,  June  18th,  1864.  (See  Memoir.) 

WIJRTS  WILLIAM  W.,  New  Jersey.  First  Lieutenant,  1st 
N.  J.  Cavaliy,  April  20th,  1862 ; resigned  May  28th,  1863. 
Afterwards  Captain  in  a Cavalry  Regiment,  Pennsylvania  State 
Militia. 

YOUNG  JOHN  F.,  Pennsylvania.  Lieutenant  and  Adjutant, 
77th  Penna.  Vols.,  March  31st,  1862;  served  in  the  Army  of 
the  Potomac;  resigned  March  14th,  1865. 

*ZABRISKIE  ABRAM,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1859.  Adjutant, 
9th  N.  J.  Vols.,  October  18th,  1861;  promoted  Major,  February 
10th,  1862;  Lieutenant-Colonel,  December  22d,  1862 ; promoted 
Colonel,  January  8th,  1863.  Wounded  at  Drury’s  Bluff,  Va., 
May  16th,  1864.  Died  May  24th,  1864.  Brevet  Brigadier- 
General,  U.  S.  Vols.  (See  Memoir.) 

ZAP1I  C.  H.  A.,  New  Jersey,  Class  of  1864.  Private,  4th  N.  J. 
Veteran  Vols.,  6th  Army  Corps,  December  12th,  1864,  and. 
served  as  Captain’s  Clerk.  Took  part  in  the  battle  of  Peters- 
burg, April  2d,  1865  ; discharged  July  9th,  1865. 


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to  make  it  a complete  and  faithful  record  of  the 
faCts  respecting  the  Sons  of  Nassau  Hall,  who 
were  engaged  in  the  War  for  the  Union.  Many 
omissions  and  errors  will,  doubtless,  be  found. 
They  are  unintentional,  and  the  editor  will  grate- 
fully receive  all  additions  and  corrections.  He  re- 
turns his  sincere  thanks  to  all  who  have  assisted  him 
in  the  work,  and  commits  it  to  all  those  who  love 
our  common  Union,  and  who,  like  Washington, 
consider  it  “the  palladium  of  our  political  safety 
and  prosperity.” 

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